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20 November 2013

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"Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that "off the shelf" equipment will allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to a cache of documents published on Monday."

See the full article: Private firms selling mass surveillance systems around world, documents show - One Dubai-based firm offers DIY system similar to GCHQ's Tempora programme, which taps fibre-optic cables (Guardian, link)
And see: Privacy International (link), and: Trade in spy systems must be reviewed, says committee chair - Sir John Stanley says licensing of exports is a growing issue in age of unparalleled capacity for surveillance (Guardian, link).

See also: French firm Amesys, criticised for selling to Gaddafi's Libya, offers customers "lawful or massive interception" of telecommunication

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