[liberationtech] In Ex-Soviet States, Russian Spy Tech Still Watches You

[Ronald Deibert]

Libtech FYI

In Ex-Soviet States, Russian Spy Tech Still Watches You

	• BY ANDREI SOLDATOV AND IRINA BOROGAN
	• 12.21.12

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/russias-hand/all/

"Manned by the country’s main security service, the FSB, this ”System of Operative Search Measures” has been in use for more than two decades. But recently, SORM has been upgraded. It is ingesting new types of data. It is being used as Moscow’s main tool for spying on the country’s political protesters. And it has become extremely useful in the quest to make sure that the Kremlin’s influence in the former Soviet Union continues long into the second regime of Vladimir Putin."
A joint investigation by Agentura.Ru, CitizenLab and Privacy International.

Ronald Deibert
Director, the Citizen Lab 
and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
(416) 946-8916
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