EU catches up, takes steps to control export of intrusion spyware, IP monitoring

Reporters Without Borders, Privacy International, Digitale Gesellschaft, FIDH, and Human Rights Watch welcome news that the European Commission will move ahead and add specific forms of surveillance technology to the EU control list on dual use items, thus taking steps to finally hold companies to account who sell spy equipment and enable human rights abuses. These important steps demonstrate that policymakers are beginning to wake up to the real harm that exists in an industry that has (...)

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