Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.

#Privacy #Surveillance #InfoSec

Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

Surveillance Watch
@alshafei The irony of this only apparently working on Chrome or Safari
@narinarinari Loads fine on Firefox & Brave as well, admittedly not on Tor & Mullvad - we're extremely limited by resources so there's only so much we can do as volunteers here. It's not perfect.

@alshafei @narinarinari it's laudable the work you guys have done..but this is about less not more. The page being broken or not working properly on some browsers, especially privacy and security oriented ones, is a product of excessively/unnecessarily using web technologies that might not be as safe as core web technologies (perfectly able to display the same information) that have existed for a couple of decades.

I highly recommend releasing this as a free software project, then the community can contribute and help make it accessible to everyone, especially those living in the targeted countries who tend to use secure browsers for their safety's sake.

@unexpectedteapot @alshafei @narinarinari you realize you’re talking to the experts living in those countries who are targeted? Those are the volunteers who worked on this on top of their daily struggles. And instead of thank you for your service, how can I help YOU, you’re doing whatever this is.

@timnitGebru You do realise you don't actually know most of the people you converse on the internet, what their background or expertise is, right? Maybe consider that before you make assumptions about who's who and where. (And yes, I also volunteer and live in one of the few top countries in that list, not that it should matter in this context!)

Opening up the software allows people from outside their circle to volunteer and make suggestions that might improve the website's accessibility while also reducing the burden on them, that's what I was recommending.

I am not sure what's outrageous in pointing that out, and I did praise the amazing work they have put before I did so. Have a nice day regardless.

@alshafei @narinarinari Works in mobile Firefox too, but admittedly quite slowly. Still, good job!
@narinarinari @alshafei *strokes duckduckgo browser*