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Wikileaks cables shows the world it’s being watched always
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Wikileaks has released documents which lift the lid on the shady world of the international surveillance industry with a new project called Spy Files. Most of the companies involved operate in plain sight.
The whistle-blowing website highlighted a growing, billion dollar industry which so far has largely slipped under the radar. Wikileaks' publicity should change this.
Companies specialising in surveillance equipment, in many cases to repressive regimes, have flourished as “mass interceptions of entire populations” has gone largely unchecked. It's not just the usual culprits you'd expect, though, warns Wikileaks. The culture of Orwellian citizen espionage is everywhere.
According to Wikileaks, the “secret” industry already spans 25 countries. Technologically advanced countries in the west have been supplying monitoring tools to others throughout the world.
