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Tag: Targeted Surveillance Industry

Targeted Surveillance (or targeted interception) is a form of surveillance, such as wiretapping, that is directed towards specific persons of interest, and is distinguishable from mass surveillance (or bulk interception). Both untargeted and targeted surveillance is routinely accused of treating innocent people as suspects in ways that are unfair, of violating human rights, international treaties and conventions as well as national laws, and of failing to pursue security effectively.
—Wikipedia, “Targeted surveillance”

“Targeted Surveillance Industry” refers to an industry formed by “surveillance-for-hire companies [who have] quietly used Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp as springboards to target people in more than 100 countries.” “The findings [of the Meta report] underscore the breadth of the targeted surveillance industry and the massive scope of targeting it enables worldwide.”
—WIRED, “Meta Removes 7 Surveillance-for-Hire Operations From Its Platforms”

See also Surveillance for Hire.

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The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools.

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Meta Removes 7 Surveillance-for-Hire Operations From Its Platforms

While NSO Group gets most of the attention, the takedowns underscore how insidious the industry has become.

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