Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Italian technology company Hacking Team of violations of human rights in Ethiopia. HRW is a nongovernmental advocacy group that seeks to expose offenders of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was (UNDR) adopted by the UN. Hacking Team offers remote surveillance services to large entities such as governments and corporations. This is not the first time that Hacking Team has been implicated by HRW. In February 2014, Human Right Watch’s senior internet researcher sent notice to the company outlining concerns about the use of Hacking Team’s tools by the government of Ethiopia against the citizens of the country. Hacking Team responded, explaining that the company’s own customer service agreement stipulates that such actions are not condoned by the tech company, and should such violations be found, support to the offender could be suspended. Research performed by Citizen Lab discovered that despite findings of wrongdoing of Ethiopian government officials, officials continued to target employees of Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT), resulting in the suppression of flow of information to the Ethiopian people. In a delicious twist of irony, Hacking Team suffered a security breach resulting in a leak of materials. Upon review of these […]
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