After the Snowden revelation of NSA spying on the US people now Wikileaks released their latest documents which show how The growing surveillance industry complex is providing governments with increasingly sophisticated spying software to track and control their citizens.
It was first reported by RT and they explained a detailed report but we also try to explain what is going on with you?
Today, Wikileaks released a large database of documents to explore the activities of dozens of companies operating in the ever-expanding electronic snooping industry.
Something major revealed after the leak of documents by Wikileaks like:
- Lawful interception
- Mass monitoring
- Network recording
- Signals and communication intelligence
- Tactical interception devices
All the above services and products provided by a litany of Western based firms.
Wikileaks says:
WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange stated: “WikiLeaks’ Spy Files #3 is part of our ongoing commitment to shining a light on the secretive mass surveillance industry. This publication doubles the WikiLeaks Spy Files database. The WikiLeaks Spy Files form a valuable resource for journalists and citizens alike, detailing and explaining how secretive state intelligence agencies are merging with the corporate world in their bid to harvest all human electronic communication.”
After a deep analysis of Wikileaks documents, RT writes:
One 2011 document showed how companies such as UK-based Gamma Group, German-based Desoma and Swiss-based Dreamlab are working in concert to “create Telecommunications Intelligence Systems for different telecommunications networks to fulfill the customers’ needs” regarding “massive data interception and retention.”
In March, Gamma International, which is a subsidiary of Gamma group, made Reporters Without Borders ‘Corporate Enemies of the Internet’ list for 2013, which singled out five “digital mercenaries” who sell their surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes.
The firm’s FinFisher Suite (which includes Trojans to infect PCs, mobile phones, other consumer electronics and servers, as well as technical consulting), is considered to be one of the most sophisticated in the world. During the search of an Egyptian intelligence agency office in 2011, human rights activists found a contract proposal from Gamma International to sell FinFisher to Egypt.
“We don’t have any sort of contracts, so that we could see financial dealings between companies and these governments. The only indications that we have as to where the spyware has been used are based on the research. In cases that we’ve seen the spyware has been targeted against activists and journalists in a particular country. We’ve been scanning the internet looking for this technology. So we found, as I said, spywares in Bahrain. We saw it being targeted against Bahraini journalists and activists last year. We’ve also found servers for the spyware in a number of other countries, such as Turkmenistan, Qatar, Ethiopia,”Marczak told RT.
More things also explored by RT and you can follow their news to have more explanation on this leak.
If people are murdered or tortured, the companies selling the technology are as complicit as if they were doing the deed themselves. What’s considered a “traitor” in the “free” world has changed considerably over the years. Black is white, up is down …