Former prime minister Stephen Harper heads the advisory board of a Toronto-based company now looking to facilitate the sale of cutting-edge surveillance technology to the United Arab Emirates a country with a troubling human rights record.
Israeli firm behind Pegasus spyware used to hack US journalists, politicians and widow of Jamal Khashoggi paid Biden adviser Anita Dunn for political consulting advice
NSO, the private Israeli firm behind the controversial spyware Pegasus, had previously launched a public relations crusade led by SKDKnickerbocker
White House senior adviser Anita Dunn is the managing director of SKDKnickerbocker, which coordinated public relations efforts by NSO in 2019
Media outlets investigated a data leak exposing possible targets of NSO clients using its spyware
The leak was of a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers and included journalists and politicians
Women on the list were close to murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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ANALYSIS- Racist facial recognition sparks ethical concerns in Russia
There is no indication yet that Russian police have targeted minorities using the software developed by the firms - AxxonSoft, Tevian, VisionLabs and NtechLab - whose products are sold to authorities and businesses in the country and abroad. But Moscow-based AxxonSoft said the Thomson Reuters Foundation s enquiry prompted it to disable its ethnicity analytics feature, saying in an emailed response it was not interested in promoting any technologies that could be a basis for ethnic segregation .
Reuters | Updated: 05-07-2021 08:31 IST | Created: 05-07-2021 08:31 IST
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