Dutch MEP Petitions To Ban Export of Surveillance Software ift.tt/eekxlt Trailrunner7 writes with this excerpt: A Dutch member of the European parliament is supporting a grass-roots effort to restrict the export of surveillance software such as FinFisher and others, which are used by some governments and law-enforcement agencies to monitor their citizens activities. The effort, dubbed Stop Digital Arms, is supported by Marietje Schaake, a member of the EU Parliaments International Trade committee. The petition itself is on the Change.org site, and it calls upon members of the European Union to give the European Commission the mandate to draft the laws and develop initiatives necessary to stop digital arms trade ... In a report called For Their Eyes Only released earlier this year, the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the university of Toronto detailed the spread of this software around the world and identified a slew of FinFisher command-and-control servers in countries such as Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, among many others. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 03:34:25 +0000
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