WikiLeaks began publishing Tuesday, November 29 its "Spyfiles", a file of 1,100 internal documents, advertising brochures and instruction manuals for the systems of surveillance and interception of online communications.Source of the leak: not authoritarian governments, or even Western intelligence services. It's actually more than 120 private companies.Half of them are also European. In order, there were 32 American, 17 British, 15 German, 10 Israeli, French and eight Italian 7.
They sell their solutions to Western countries under democratic regimes, but also to states with more authoritarian tendencies.
According to Julian Assange, software is sold on the market that can keep track of all the owners of a mobile phone, or Facebook accounts to infect an entire population of a country.
He spoke in London at a press conference followed by eWeek UK, while remaining within the scope of extradition proceedings to Sweden for a sex scandal.
"Over the past decade, systems for monitoring weight, without distinction between citizens, have become the norm", is concerned about cyber-activist.
In France for example, the charges in August against Amesys are again revived.
Internal emails published by Wikileaks show that the subsidiary security Bull has actively assisted the Libyan government led by Colonel Gaddafi to monitor electronic communications of opponents of the regime, but also Libyan located in Europe, said OWNI.
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