An investigation into the international surveillance trade.
Activist group Privacy International has launched an ambitious project to track the spread of commercial surveillance, spying and tracking technology and the often secretive firms selling into the booming sector.
“This research was conducted as part of our Big Brother Incorporated project, an investigation into the international surveillance trade that focuses on the sale of technologies by Western companies to repressive regimes intent on using them as tools of political control,” said Matt Rice of Privacy International in his introduction to the database. “What we found, and what we are publishing, is downright scary.”
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