Tag Archives: export controls

EU Parliament: vote to stop surveillance exports to rights-abusing govts

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age - Cybersecurity

CILD staff 16 January 2018

(joint press release) EU: European Parliament must vote to stop surveillance equipment going to rights-abusing governments European Parliament’s (EP) vote tomorrow could stop the...

NGO Letter to EU Member States and Institutions On Surveillance Exports

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age - Cybersecurity

CILD staff 11 July 2017

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Following the alarming evidence that EU-made electronic surveillance equipment is still being exported to authoritarian countries around the world, a coalition of NGOs strongly...

Surveillance: Hermes wants review of the FOIA request to Italian Ministry

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age - Cybersecurity - Freedom of Expression

CILD staff 30 May 2017

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Together with Privacy International and the Hermes Center, last April we wrote to the Ministry of Economic Development about exports of surveillance technologies by...

Ministry of Economic Development’s reply: Area Spa license to be revoked

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age - Cybersecurity

CILD staff 24 January 2017

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Yesterday, the Ministry of Economic Development declared that export license for Area Spa will be revoked soon: the public declaration follows our letter on...