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British spyware used to target Bahraini activists

25th July 2012

Bloomberg reported today that security researchers have identified FinFisher spyware - "one of the world’s best-known and elusive cyber weapons" - in malicious emails sent to Bahraini pro-democracy activists, including a naturalized U.S. citizen who owns gas stations in Alabama, a London-based human rights activist and a British-born economist in Bahrain. Analysis of the emails by CitizenLab (a project based within the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs) revealed that they…

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European Council bans export of surveillance technologies to Iranian authorities in response to serious human rights violations

23rd February 2012

The Council of the European Union today reinforced restrictive measures on EU exports to Iran, banning "exports of equipment and software intended for use in the monitoring or interception of internet and telephone communications by the Iranian authorities". The Council also added 17 people responsible for grave human rights violations to the list of those subject to a travel ban and asset freeze. An existing ban on equipment for use in internal repression was transferred from the sanctions…