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– Building Syria’s surveillance state: A Privacy International investigation (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 10, 2017

The lead up to the Arab Spring was open season for surveillance companies — they provided technologies to eager government clients widely known to be publicly engaged in repression.
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