Check out Surveillance Watch – a powerful tool designed to expose the hidden networks within the surveillance industry used to suppress journalists, dissidents, and human rights advocates. https://lnkd.in/gp7bBpDZ 🗺️ 🌐 This interactive map reveals the complex connections between surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, holding them accountable for their role in widespread rights violations. Community-driven and reliant on contributions from those committed to privacy and human rights, Surveillance Watch needs you support! If you are in a position to help, please contribute, share, and stay informed. Congrats to Esra'a Al Shafei & team!
We know that surveillance technology and spyware are consistently being used to target and suppress journalists, dissidents, and human rights advocates everywhere. So today, we are pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://lnkd.in/gcTkUBkR Founded by privacy advocates from the Global Majority, most of whom were personally harmed by surveillance tech, our mission is to shed light on the companies profiting from this exploitation with significant risk to our lives. 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. This project would not have been possible without the early support of DAIR, Logic(s) Magazine and the AI Now Institute. Special thanks go to Dr. Timnit Gebru in particular for her help, and The Tor Project for encouraging us to embark on this work. Outside of the core costs of running this project, the research was committed entirely by volunteers. If you’re interested in helping support the effort, please get in touch. Global Majority organizations do not get sufficient support in this space, and it’s causing our communities to lag behind on the significant progress that needs to be made on this front. Your support and partnership would mean a lot to us. #HumanRights #Privacy #Data #Surveillance #Spyware