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March 27, 2014 11:00 pm PDT
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Ethiopia: the first "off-the-shelf" surveillancestate
"They Know Everything We Do", a new, exhaustive report from Human Rights Watch, details the way the young state of modern Ethiopia has become a kind of pilot program for the abuse of "off-the-shelf" surveillance, availing itself of commercial products from the US, the UK, France, Italy and China in order to establish an abusive surveillance regime that violates human rights and suppresses legitimate political opposition under the guise of a anti-terrorism law that's so broadly interpreted as to be meaningless.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/A0hUOWxv3_A/story01.htm
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