Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke about how repressive governments around the world have been getting assistance from Western technology companies.
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Director Ron Deibert interviewed by Wall Street Journal
April 22, 2013 – 12:41 pm
An attempt to take tools from tyrants
February 18, 2013 – 1:17 pm
Source: Judy Dempsey, The New York Times
Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, has been in jail since pro-democracy demonstrations began in Bahrain two years ago.
Meet the German jazz pianist selling spy software to totalitarian regimes
February 15, 2013 – 1:32 pm
Source: Bastian Brinkmann, Jasmin Klofta and Frederik Obermaier, World Crunch
Martin Münch says he knows who the bad guys are, and that he’s one of the good guys.
OECD complaint against Gamma International and Trovicor
February 5, 2013 – 11:45 am
Source: Chloe Shuffrey, Privacy International
On 1st February 2013 Privacy International, together with the ECCHR, the BCHR, Bahrain Watch and RSF, filed complaints with the OECD against Gamma International and Trovicor GmbH.
TeliaSonera’s Uzbekistan scandal is a warning to telecom CEOs everywhere
February 3, 2013 – 12:42 pm
Source: Peter Micek
The chickens are coming home to roost. Lars Nyberg resigned yesterday as CEO of TeliaSonera, the Sweden-based global telecommunications company, in the wake of an investigation into a 3G licensing deal in Uzbekistan.
Trojans for the Bundestag – German PD acquired Finfisher
January 29, 2013 – 12:23 pm
Source: Don Eijndhoven, InfoSec Island
In December of last year, the German public prosecutors’ office had declared that there was no legal basis for the use of the so-called “Bundestrojaner” spyware, which was used to spy on German citizens.
MJM as personified evil says spyware saves lives not kills them
November 9, 2012 – 10:51 am
Source: Vernon Silver, Bloomberg
In the secretive world of surveillance technology, he goes just by his initials: MJM.
European Parliament endorses stricter European export control of digital arms
October 23, 2012 – 10:45 am
Source: Marietje Schaake
By endorsing amendments proposed by Dutch Member of European Parliament Marietje Schaake (D66/ALDE) the European Parliament wants EU export control regulation to include additional binding export controls for technologies that are used by authoritarian regimes to monitor, track and trace citizens.
Spyware leaves trail to beaten activist through Microsoft flaw
October 10, 2012 – 1:42 am
Source: Vernon Silver, Bloomberg
On a Monday in July, Ahmed Mansoor sat in his study in Dubai and made the mistake of clicking on a Microsoft Word attachment that arrived in an e-mail, labeled “very important” in Arabic, from a sender he thought he recognized.
Commodity jurisdiction final determinations
September 28, 2012 – 12:14 pm
Source: U.S. Department of State
The Commodity Jurisdiction Results table provides insight into US companies that export surveillance tools.
