[Infowarrior] - Cyber & Surveillance

[Richard Forno]

The unstoppable rise of the global surveillance profiteers

By Aaron Sankin on December 7th, 2014

Imagine if your government put a price tag on your privacy, acquiring shadowy surveillance technology that exploited your personal vulnerabilities.

Earlier this year, journalists at the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT) were sent something sketchy. The Amsterdam-based TV channel holds itself up as an alternative to the country’s tightly controlled state-run media and regularly runs programming critical of Ethiopia’s ruling regime. As such, the station’s broadcasts in the country are regularly jammed by government censors, and a recent documentary aired on state-run TV urged Ethiopians not to participate in ESAT’s programming…..

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http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/11057/cyberwar-surveillance-state-economy/

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