Surveillance Industry

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British government welcomes Foreign Affairs Committee recommendation to control exports of surveillance and censorship technology

In his response to the third report from the Foreign Affairs Committee Session 2012-13, Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed for the first time the government's firm commitment to putting in place new export controls on "telecommunications equipment for which there is a reasonable expectation

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European Council bans export of surveillance technologies to Iranian authorities in response to serious human rights violations

The Council of the European Union today reinforced restrictive measures on EU exports to Iran, banning "exports of equipment and software intended for use in the monitoring or interception of internet and telephone communications by the Iranian authorities". The Council also added 17 people

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Privacy International accuses British government of giving UK companies "carte blanche" to sell dangerous surveillance tech to Iran

Privacy International’s Director-General Simon Davies has today written to Prime Minister David Cameron and Creativity Software CEO Richard Lee following revelations that Kingston-based Creativity sold a location-tracking system to Iran. Mr Davies expressed his disappointment that the Coalition has