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It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries – ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L’Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S. Wikileaks is shining a light on this secret industry that has boomed since September 11, 2001 and is worth billions of dollars per year.The State of Surveillance: The Data: TBIJ
The State of Surveillance: The Data December 1st, 2011 | by Matthew Wrigley, David Pegg, Christian Jensen and Jamie Thunder | Published in All Stories , State of Surveillance - The Data The Bureau and London-based human rights group Privacy International have compiled a comprehensive database of companies that sell surveillance products. Using the interface below, you can search by company, or by the country the company is headquartered in: for instance, you could search for the company ‘AGT’ to look at that single company, or for ‘Germany’ in order to view all of the companies located in that country.
WikiLeaks rend public aujourd’hui près de 1 100 documents internes, plaquettes commerciales et modes d’emploi des produits commercialisés par les industriels des systèmes de surveillance et d’interception des télécommunications. Ces nouvelles fuites montrent un marché de la surveillance de masse représentant désormais cinq milliards de dollars, avec des technologies capables d’espionner la totalité des flux Internet et téléphoniques à l’échelle d’une nation. Les fleurons de ce marché s’appellent Nokia-Siemens, Qosmos, Nice, Verint, Hacking Team, Bluecoat ou Amesys. Les documents détaillant leurs capacités d’interception, contenant une multitude de détails technologiques, seront progressivement mis en ligne par WikiLeaks.
Internet massivement surveillé » OWNI, News, Augmented
The State of Surveillance: TBIJ
Big Brother is watching more closely now. A secretive multi-billion dollar industry is offering cutting-edge systems that enable governments to identify, track and monitor people through their phones and computers, a cache of hundreds of surveillance brochures and other marketing materials reveals. A German company offers the ability to track ‘political opponents’; an Italian company claims it can remotely seize control of smartphones and use them to listen into conversations and photograph the owners; a US company allows users to ‘see what they [the target] see’; and a South African company offers tools for recording billions of phone calls and storing them forever. These brochures and other marketing material, known as the ‘Spy Files’, are released today by WikiLeaks and London-based human rights group Privacy International .
Ils sont poètes, journalistes, écrivains, historiens, intellectuels, et ont entre 50 et 70 ans. La plupart occupait un rôle clé dans les réseaux de l’opposition libyenne. Récemment, sept d’entre-eux vivaient encore en exil : quatre au Royaume-Uni, deux aux Etats-Unis, un à Helsinki.
Des réfugiés sur écoute » OWNI, News, Augmented
Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower warned of the ‘disastrous rise’ of the military-industrial complex. His fears proved all too accurate. Now in the post-9/11 world, the threat goes even further: the military-industrial complex is evolving into the military-intelligence complex.
Analysis: The slide into a surveillance state: TBIJ
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on-line… The 21st-century surveillance industry is hi-tech, sophisticated and terrifyingly pervasive, it is revealed in more than 200 brochures, presentations and other marketing materials published today by WikiLeaks and Privacy International . The gear on sale falls into four categories: location tracking of mobile phones and vehicles; hacking into computers and phones to monitor every keystroke; recording and storage of what’s being said on an entire telecommunication networks; and the analysis of vast swathes of data to track individual users. Location tracking
The ‘Spy Files’: How safe are your emails and phone calls?: TBIJ
The products of what Lucas calls the “lawful intercept” industry are developed mainly in Western nations such as the United States but are sold all over the world with few restrictions. This burgeoning trade has alarmed human rights activists and privacy advocates, who call for greater regulation because the technology has ended up in the hands of repressive governments such as those of Syria, Iran and China. “You need two things for a dictatorship to survive: propaganda and secret police,” said Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.), who has proposed bills to restrict the sale of surveillance technology overseas.
Trade in surveillance technology raises worries - The Washington Post
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