Phone/Social Network/Skype/ComputerCamera etc… SPYING

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American (Hewlett Packard…) and European (Ericsson…) companies helping repressive regimes (in the US and abroad) and making a fortune selling software to Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Tunisia, etc…
Phone-messaging-location tracking…
A sobering 30 minute interview on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Somebody thinks they’re downloading a piece of software off the Internet but instead they’re downloading this piece of spyware and now the government has full access to everything they type [and] everything they say – Ben Elgin
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The Wired for Repression Series by Ben Algin
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Watch out for that camera on your computer and the “iTunes upgrades” – Assange was right to say that Facebook is the most  sophisticated spy-machine: “Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies, and building this database for them… Now, is the case that Facebook is run by U.S. intelligence? No, it’s not like that. It’s simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure to them.”

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