Advocacy group Privacy International has put together an extensive report on the powerful surveillance technologies being sold by private companies. The findings, it says, are “downright scary” and show that private companies are capable of acquiring spying tools just as capable as what the NSA and GCHQ are using. The details…
UK has no idea if it’s selling spyware to evil regimes
The UK government says it isn’t exercising any control over the sale of surveillance software nor stopping it from finding its way into the hands of repressive regimes. At the start of the month, Lord David Alton of Liverpool called on the Coalition to ban the export of espionage software…