Privacy International has released a Surveillance Industry Index.
From PI:
Privacy International is pleased to announce the Surveillance Industry Index,
the most comprehensive publicly available database on the private surveillance sector.
Over the last four years, Privacy International has been gathering
information from various sources that details how the sector sells its
technologies, what the technologies are capable of and in some cases,
which governments a technology has been sold to. Through our collection
of materials and brochures at surveillance trade shows around the world,
and by incorporating certain information provided by Wikileaks and
Omega Research Foundation, this collection of documents represents the
largest single index on the private surveillance sector ever assembled.
All told, there are 1,203 documents detailing 97 surveillance
technologies contained within the database. The Index features 338
companies that develop these technologies in 36 countries around the
world.
This research was conducted as part of our Big Brother Incorporated project,
an investigation into the international surveillance trade that focuses
on the sale of technologies by Western companies to repressive regimes
intent on using them as tools of political control.
What we found, and what we are publishing, is downright scary . . .
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