Monday, December 5, 2011

Exposing " Big Brother "

This article is from Zare Lepotec
The most famous world "whistleblower" and founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange said that governments around the world use electronic devices such as smart phones and computers, to track what people are saying, where they move and what you write.-Assange this week participated in the discussion at the Chair for Investigative Journalism at City University, London where he presented a new project Spyfiles WikiLeaks. The organization has announced details of the contract by private companies to track concluded with governments around the world to the developed software will be integrated into electronic devices that could monitor the activities of people.-Project Spyfiles reveals that 160 companies in 25 countries to develop intelligence technology by which governments monitor their citizens.-Assange said that publication of 287 documents on Friday to follow further discoveries in the coming weeks the following year, in order to expose the practice that, although legal, registered as "totalitarian state control."-"Who here has a BlackBerry? Anyone using Gmail? Well, you're all fucked!" Said Assange and explained that the company's worldwide sales rights of states to a mass system of monitoring for all these products. Assange claims that these companies, which are mainly located in developed countries of the world sell their technology to less developed countries. Western countries often cooperate with authoritarian regimes in the spying of citizens and dissidents. This includes former Gaddafi Libyan regime, which is a French company Amesys sold equipment with which they could not keep up then opposition leaders abroad. What is disturbing is that Gaddafi's intelligence could monitor the regime opponents in the U.S., UK and Finland. The same was the case in Egypt where the citizens discovered after the fall of dictator amplified rooms with equipment Gamma British corporation, VASTech's from South Africa and ZTE Corp.. from China, with which every step is followed by the step on the internet and phone. However, the people of the West are no safer. Participants in the discussion said that the British service MI5 allegedly uses sophisticated voice recognition system, which is incorporated into cell phones so they can find out who the story with anyone. Other agencies are able to detect where the user is located, what it says and even what it looks like. One program allows intelligence agencies to capture people using cameras in their mobile phones.

 

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