surveillance

Bill Aims to Curb Tech Firms’ Exports

Steve Stecklow, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 9, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Pressure mounted Thursday on U.S. and Western companies that sell censorship and surveillance technology to repressive regimes, with a congressman introducing a bill that would restrict such exports.

Bill Would Curb Exports of Spyware

Steve Stecklow, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 1, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

A bill that would restrict U.S. exports of technology that can be used by repressive regimes to censor the Internet or conduct surveillance on users will be introduced in the House soon.

The Surveillance Catalog

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Zachary M. Seward, Julia Angwin, Courtney Banks, Scott Thurm and Ashkan Soltani, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 19, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Firms Aided Libyan Spies

Paul Sonne and Margaret Coker, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 30, 2011 at 3:03 am PT

On the ground floor of a six-story building here, agents working for Moammar Gadhafi sat in an open room, spying on emails and chat messages with the help of technology Libya acquired from the West.

Cisco Poised to Help China Keep an Eye on Its Citizens

Loretta Chao and Don Clark, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 5, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Western companies including Cisco Systems Inc. are poised to help build an ambitious new surveillance project in China — a citywide network of as many as 500,000 cameras that officials say will prevent crime but that human rights advocates warn could target political dissent.