African Digital Rights Network (#ADRN): "Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technologies to Africa:
… African governments are spending over 1US$bn per year on digital #surveillance technologies which are being used without adequate legal protections in ways that regularly violate citizens’ fundamental human rights."
Read about the companies that provide the most surveillance technology to Africa:
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/18120
Some of the findings of that study:
Surveillance was introduced by colonisers, retained by liberators, &
automated by today’s leaders
surveillance has made panoptic realtime mass surveillance possible
Companies providing the most surveillance technology to Africa include:
#Huawei #ZTE … #BIOkey #Agilis #HackingTeam
#Thales #BAESystems
#Gamma (#FinFisher) #Dermalog #NSO Group (#Pegasus
& #Circles) #Cyberbit #Elbit…
#Arms-exporting countries = the main surveillance-exporting countries.
Friedemann