Lucrative surveillance market fed by desire to hunt down dissidents

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the criminal cooperation between western hi-tech companies and authoritarian regimes, which is receiving renewed attention after the WikiLeaks website yesterday posted the “SpyFiles”, a series of documents shedding light on the scale of the 5-billion-dollar international market in mass surveillance and interception. Around 1,100 internal documents involving 160 companies in 25 countries are being made available to the international (...)

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