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WikiLeaks Uncovers Global Network Of Surveillance Companies For Hire

If you’re a wealthy, militant despot of a nation and your sovereignty is slipping away, WikiLeaks has discovered that you can attempt to prevent an uprising by hiring a network of spies who operate in the private sector and will keep tabs on citizens who threaten your reign.


August 31, 2011
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International Tech Companies Helped Gaddafi Spy On Libyans

Muammar Gaddafi was a desperate man even before the civil war, and it shows more since the recent fall of Tripoli. the Wall Street Journal reports that Gaddafi had the Libyan people systematically spied upon online for years. And international tech companies helped.