Privacy campaigners have welcomed news that the European Commission will add specific forms of surveillance technology to its control list on dual use items.
This will mean taking steps to hold companies who sell spy equipment and enable human rights abuses to account.
By adding intrusion software and IP monitoring to the control list, this places exporters of surveillance technology such as FinFisher, Hacking Team andAmesys under more scrutiny as now they will be obligated to apply for licences for their technologies when exporting out of the EU, providing Governments with an opportunity to prevent the technology from being exported to human rights abusing regimes.
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