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Le gouvernement britannique épinglé pour son manque de régulation dans l’exportation de technologies de surveillance vers des régimes autocratiques. RT

Privacy International, the human rights group, is suing the British government, filing an application for judicial review of Her Majesty’s Revenue and customs (HMRC) on account of its role in allowing the export of advanced surveillance technology that has been used by repressive regimes worldwide, including that of Bahrain, to spy on dissidents.

Privacy International’s lawsuit is over the government’s refusal to say whether it was investigating UK-based Gamma International (GI). GI’s FinFisher software has allegedly been used by some two dozen countries worldwide

▻http://rt.com/news/human-rights-uk-bahrain-927

Human rights group sues British government over export of spying technology used in Bahrain - The Washington Post
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« Privacy International » a déposé [aujourd’hui] une plainte devant la Haute Cour de Londres contre le gouvernement britannique sur le fait que ce dernier refuse de dire s’il mène une enquête sur Gamma International, basé à Londres, dont le logiciel FinFisher a été utilisé dans plus de deux douzaines de pays, dont le Bahreïn, l’Egypte, l’Ethiopie, le Turkménistan et le Vietnam.

#Bahreïn

La surveillance de masse en ligne : un phénomène de grande ampleur ?
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La surveillance de masse en ligne : un phénomène de grande ampleur ? : ― #www.lemagit.fr ‒ March 14, 2013 at 02:00PM.

Un groupe de chercheurs a découvert 25 pays qui pourraient avoir recours aux outils d’espionnage en ligne de l’allemand Gamma International GmbH, outils déjà mis en lumière par la chute d’Hosni Mubarak il y a deux ans. Des pays déjà dans la ligne de mire des défenseurs des droits de l’homme, mais également des démocraties tout ce qu’il y a de respectable.Cet article La surveillance de masse (...)

Google engineer finds British spyware on PCs and smartphones • The Register
►http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/31/finspy_gamma_polcie_spying

FinSpy was developed by the German conglomerate Gamma Group and sold via the UK subsidiary Gamma International. In a statement to Bloomberg, managing director Martin Muench denied the company had any involvement.

“As you know we don’t normally discuss our clients but given this unique situation it’s only fair to say that Gamma has never sold their products to Bahrain,” he said. “It is unlikely that it was an installed system used by one of our clients but rather that a copy of an old FinSpy demo version was made during a presentation and that this copy was modified and then used elsewhere.”

#surveillance #répression #bahrain #egypte

Mideast Uses Western Tools to Battle the #Skype Rebellion - WSJ.com
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A cottage industry of U.S. and other companies is now designing and selling tools that can be used to block or eavesdrop on Skype conversations. (...) #Egypt's spy service last year tested one product, #FinSpy, made by Britain’s Gamma International UK Ltd.

de la #surveillance :

Dissidents are discovering other potential vulnerabilities in using Skype. This month, rebels in Libya found what appeared to be spyware they say was being distributed via their Skype contact lists.

The Wall Street Journal asked security company Symantec Corp. to analyze the file, which turned out to be a “remote access tool” that could let an outsider remotely eavesdrop on audio and capture keystrokes.

et la #censure :

In #China, #Skype users are subject to censorship. To enter the Chinese market in 2004, Skype agreed to a unique arrangement in which a special version of its software there filters users’ text chats and blocks politically sensitive keywords.

#internet #atla

British firm offered spying software to Egyptian regime – documents | Technology | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/28/egypt-spying-software-gamma-finfisher

One of the papers, in English and headed Finfisher Proposal: Commercial Offer, contained an offer dated 29 June 2010 to provide “FinSpy” software, hardware, installation and training to the SSI for €287,000 (£255,000). The name on the invoice, dated Tuesday 29 June 2010, was Gamma International UK Limited.

Other documents, written in Arabic and marked “ultimately confidential”, state that after being offered a “free trial version” of Gamma’s Finfisher software to test its ability to hack into email accounts, the SSI concluded it was “a high-level security system” that could get into email accounts of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo, as well as allowing “full control” of the computers of “targeted elements”. It went on to describe the software’s “success in breaking through personal accounts on Skype network, which is considered the most secure method of communication used by members of the elements of the harmful activity because it is encrypted”.

The find throws a spotlight on western companies that provide software to security services and agents of oppressive regimes to spy on, censor and block the websites with which activists communicate. Last month a report by OpenNet Initiative said nine countries across the Middle East and North Africa used US and Canadian technology to impede access to online content, including sites with political, social and religious material.

#égypte #internet