Jessica Lyons reports:
INTERVIEW: Digital rights activist Esra’a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she’s made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their customers, and their funders.
“You cannot resist what you do not know, and the more you know, the better you can protect yourself and resist against the normalization of mass surveillance today,” she told The Register.
To this end, the Mozilla fellow founded Surveillance Watch last year. It’s an interactive map that documents the growing number of surveillance software providers, which regions use the various products, and the investors funding them. Since its launch, the project has grown from mapping connections between 220 spyware and surveillance entities to 695 today.
These include the very well known spy tech like NSO Group’s Pegasus and Cytrox’s Predator, both famously used to monitor politicians, journalists and activists in the US, UK, and around the world.
Read more at The Register.