Salon.com > finspy http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 14:22:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Surveillance software used to spy on activists around the world http://www.salon.com/2013/03/13/surveillance_software_used_to_spy_on_activists_around_the_world/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/13/surveillance_software_used_to_spy_on_activists_around_the_world/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:35:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13227777 FinSpy, a surveillance tool designed to enable law enforcement to monitor computers in criminal investigations, is being used by governments around the world to spy on activist activity, a new report from Citizen Lab revealed Wednesday.

The U.K.-based Gamma Group markets and sells the software to law enforcement ostensibly with the sole purpose of lawfully monitoring the computers of criminals -- including pedophile rings, human traffickers and organized crime syndicates. The tool has, as Citizen Lab found, been put to broader and more nefarious uses by governments in countries including Bahrain, Ethiopia and Vietnam with "strong indications of politically-motivated targeting."

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