Spy Files 3. Spy Files 3: WikiLeaks Sheds More Light On The Global Surveillance Industry. In this article, Maria Xynou looks at WikiLeaks' latest Spy Files and examines the legality of India's surveillance technologies, as well as their potential connection with India's Central Monitoring System (CMS) and implications on human rights. Last month, WikiLeaks released “Spy Files 3”, a mass exposure of the global surveillance trade and industry. WikiLeaks first released the Spy Files in December 2011, which entail brochures, presentations, marketing videos and technical specifications on the global trade of surveillance technologies.
Spy Files 3 supplements this with 294 additional documents from 92 global intelligence contractors. So what do the latest Spy Files reveal about India? When we think about India, the first issues that probably come to mind are poverty and corruption, while surveillance appears to be a more “Western” and elitist issue. ISS World Surveillance Trade Shows The following table lists the Indian attendees at last years’ ISS World: ClearTrail Technologies 1. 3. WikiLeaks SpyFiles: New documents examine spy tech companies like Gamma, Hacking Team. Photo by Anthony Devlin/AFP/Getty Images The secretive surveillance technology industry does its best to fly under the radar. But the shadowy companies selling controversial spy tools to governments are being exposed to public scrutiny whether they like it or not, thanks to a new WikiLeaks project. Ryan Gallagher is a journalist who reports on surveillance, security, and civil liberties. Follow On Wednesday, the whistleblower organization published a new trove of documents that reveal the surveillance equipment being sold by more than 90 firms to authorities across the world as part of a burgeoning clandestine market in electronic spying.
The documents shed light on the growing catalog of surveillance devices being offered to governments, ranging from portable transceivers that can sweep up thousands of phone calls to Trojan spyware designed to help police and intelligence agencies hack into computers and mobile phones to monitor chats and emails. WikiLeaks Posts Spy Firm Videos Offering Tools For Hacking iTunes, Gmail, Skype. >Wikileaks - The Spy files.