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  • De digitale inkijkoperaties van de Politie Black Box (samenvatting I). Nederlandse politie gebruikt spyware voor inlichtingenoperaties, inkijkoperaties en andere opsporingsdoelen, niet voor het verzamelen van bewijs.

    De Nederlandse politie maakt de afgelopen jaren steeds vaker gebruik van spyware van commerciële bedrijven om laptops, computers, smartphones en andere gegevensdragers van verdachten binnen te dringen. Volgens de wet mag de politie alleen gebruik maken van haar hackbevoegdheid bij verdenkingen van terrorisme en ernstige criminaliteit. Door middel van spyware verkregen gegevens worden nauwelijks tot niet gebruikt als bewijs bij rechtszaken. Het lijkt erop dat de politie spyware tools gebruikt voor inlichtingenoperaties, inkijkoperaties en andere opsporingsdoelen.

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    Nederlandse politie koopt spyware van controversiële bedrijven (samenvatting II). Overheid screent deze bedrijven in het geheel niet.

    Commerciële spyware bedrijven leveren ook aan repressieve regimes die het inzetten tegen oppositieleden, activisten en journalisten.  Volgens de overheid koopt Nederland geen spyware van bedrijven die ook leveren aan dubieuze regimes en vindt er een screening van bedrijven plaats. In de praktijk stelt deze screening echter niets voor. De politie vertrouwt volledig op verklaringen van bedrijven dat zij niet leveren aan dubieuze regimes, maar doet geen eigen onderzoek.

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    Een Politie Black Box, gebruik van spyware door de Nederlandse politie (onderzoek)

    De Nederlandse politie maakt de afgelopen jaren steeds vaker gebruik van spyware van commerciële bedrijven om laptops, computers, smartphones en andere gegevensdragers van verdachten binnen te dringen. Volgens de wet mag de politie alleen gebruik maken van haar hackbevoegdheid bij verdenkingen van terrorisme en ernstige criminaliteit. Door middel van spyware verkregen gegevens worden echter nauwelijks tot niet gebruikt als bewijs bij rechtszaken.

    Volgens de overheid vindt een screening van de leveranciers van spyware plaats. In de praktijk is van een screening echter geen sprake. De politie vertrouwt volledig op de verklaringen van bedrijven dat zij niet leveren aan dubieuze regimes, maar doet geen eigen onderzoek. Producenten van spyware leveren ook aan repressieve regimes waar spyware wordt ingezet tegen journalisten, mensenrechtenactivisten en oppositieleden. Ook bedrijven waarvan Nederland spyware heeft afgenomen, zoals Gamma Group en de NSO Group.

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    Documenten bij een Politie Black Box gebruik van spyware door de Nederlandse politie

    In dit onderzoek borduurt Buro Jansen & Janssen voort op eerdere onderzoeken van het Buro naar de cybersurveillance industrie en relatie tussen de Nederlandse politie en leveranciers van spyware. Er is gebruik gemaakt van openbare bronnen, Woo-verzoeken en rapporten van de Inspectie Justitie en Veiligheid.

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    Surveillance made in France

    In Egypt, arms giant Dassault, a subsidiary of Thales, and the company Nexa Technologies sold a mass surveillance system to the dictatorship of Field Marshal Sisi. With the blessing of the French state.

    “Happy birthday” greetings pour in on Ahmed Alaa’s phone. On October 1, 2017, sitting in the back of a taxi in the small town of Damietta, Egypt, the student, who has just turned 22, sends out emojis and text messages to his friends. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window: “Identity card!” Plainclothes officers surround the vehicle, walkie-talkies in hand, pull him out roughly and take him away in their van. Destination unknown. “For a second I thought it was a prank”, he tells Disclose. “I didn’t think I could ever be kidnapped like that, in the middle of the street”. He was imprisoned, without any form of trial.At the time, the regime accused him of posting a photo on the Internet of himself under a rainbow flag, the symbol of the LGBT community, at an underground rock concert in Cairo on 22 September. A photo that went viral on the web in Egypt led to the young man being accused by the regime of “immorality” and belonging to an “illegal group”. After 80 days in detention, he was released without further explanation, physically and psychologically broken. He packed his bags and fled the country for Toronto, Canada, where Disclose met him to talk at length.
    Sitting in the Canadian living room of friends who are refugees like him, he recalls the events. The official media broadcasting his face over and over again on TV, the threats on social networks, and then the few days in hiding in a small town far from Cairo, where he thought he was safe. “When the police arrested me, I soon realised that my phone had been tapped and my social network activity monitored. No one can escape them… ”

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    France sold Sisi surveillance systems that led to the arrest and torture of opponents

    The site continued to publish new secrets in what it called “Egypt Papers” (Mohamed Al-Shahed/AFP)

    The Egyptian authorities blocked the investigative website, Disclose, hours after it published an investigation into France’s involvement in intelligence assistance to Egypt, which led to the targeting of civilians on the Libyan border.

    On Wednesday, the website continued to publish new secrets in what it called “Egypt Papers”, and revealed in a new report that the giant French arms company “Dassault”, affiliated with Thales and Nexa Technologies, sold “a mass surveillance system to the dictatorship of Field Marshal Sisi, with the blessing of the French state.” site says.

    The site interviewed the Egyptian youth Ahmed Alaa, who was imprisoned without any form of trial, in 2017, and the regime accused him of posting a picture of him online under the rainbow flag, the symbol of the “gay community”, at an underground rock concert in Cairo on the 22nd. September of that year.

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    French spyware bosses indicted for their role in the torture of dissidents

    An investigation into the sale of surveillance technologies to Libya and Egypt has led to charges against leaders at one company.

    Senior executives at a French spyware firm have been indicted for the company’s sale of surveillance software to authoritarian regimes in Libya and Egypt that resulted in the torture and disappearance of dissidents.

    While high-tech surveillance is a multibillion-dollar industry worldwide, it is rare for companies or individuals to face legal consequences for selling such technologies—even to notorious dictatorships or other dangerous regimes. But charges in the Paris Judicial Court against leaders at Amesys, a surveillance company that later changed its name to Nexa Technology, claim that the sales to Libya and Egypt over the last decade led to the crushing of opposition, torture of dissidents, and other human rights abuses.

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    French executives face torture charges for selling spy gear to Libya, Egypt

    Current and former executives at two French technology companies have been charged with complicity in torture for selling surveillance equipment to Libya and Egypt that was used to track down opponents, who were then detained and tortured.

    Investigating magistrates in the war crimes unit of the Paris tribunal have charged the former chief of Amesys, Philippe Vannier, and three current and former executives of Nexa Technologies, with “complicity in acts of torture”, according to the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH).

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    This Week in Internet Censorship: Sri Lanka, Thailand, Egypt, and a Criminal Suit Against Amesys (2011)

    EFF has grave concerns about the health of Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad, who has now been on hunger strike for 57 days.  Sanad’s retrial was scheduled for October 13, but was postponed.  Sanad, who was sentenced in April by a military court to three years in prison on charges of insulting the military on his blog, has stated that he will boycott any retrial.

    We firmly support the statement made by Reporters Without Borders Wednesday, which reads:

    “We condemn this persistence in persecuting Sanad and call for his immediate release. This military court should dismiss the charges against him. The repeated postponement of the hearings and the refusal to release him on bail are being used to prolong his detention. The original trial was unfair and violated the principles of justice. After its verdict was rightly quashed, the retrial must not be used to repeat the first trial.”

    EFF reiterates our call for Sanad’s immediate release.

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