Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke about how repressive governments around the world have been getting assistance from Western technology companies.
Tag Archives: Western Technologies and Censorship
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.
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Sarah McKune in Huffington Post interview
January 17, 2013 – 6:07 pm
Hosted by Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, the segment explored US involvement in exporting arms and censorship, surveillance and filtering technology to brutal regimes abroad.
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.
U.K. limits spyware that may have targeted dissidents
September 10, 2012 – 6:29 am
Source: Vernon Silver, Bloomberg
The British government has imposed export controls on U.K.-based Gamma Group’s FinSpy surveillance tool, which can remotely take over computers and phones.
British government admits it started controlling exports of Gamma International’s FinSpy
September 10, 2012 – 3:35 am
Source: Privacy International
Privacy International is delighted that the government has recognised the necessity of controlling exports of Gamma International’s technologies.
FinFisher mobile spyware tracking political activists
August 31, 2012 – 7:34 am
Source: Mathew J. Schwartz, Information Week
Spyware developed and sold by U.K.-based Gamma Group can infect BlackBerrys, iPhones, and other mobile devices, and is being used to actively target dissidents in countries governed by autocratic regimes.
