[LINK] Online Surveillance

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Thu Apr 12 20:29:06 AEST 2012


> German engineering giant Siemens and a spinoff company allegedly sold surveillance technology to the Syrian regime, according to a German television report. The government could be using the equipment to crack down on opposition supporters, human rights activists warn.
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> The Munich-based company Trovicor, which belongs to a financial investor today, declined to comment..
> Trovicor's website describes the "Trovicor Monitoring Center" as broadly effective and tailor-made to the "complex needs" of international security and law enforcement agencies. "Its usage spans from intercept of communications in fixed and mobile networks to next generation networking and Internet," it says. Furthermore, the system is expandable. "Popular applications are e.g.: location tracking, speaker recognition and language identification and link analysis," the site continues. 
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> Last October, the US firm Blue Coat Systems acknowledged that at least 
13 of its web blocking devices -- initially destined for Iraq -- had
somehow made their way to Syria, where they were being used in the regime's
crackdown.
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<http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,826860,00.html#ref=rss>
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