A new scandal tarnishes several Latin American democracies, after the Chilean NGO Derechos Digitales analyze 400 GB of information leaked last July.
The team published a new report that summarizes and analyzes information from hundreds emails and documents from the Italian firm Hacking Team, leaked last year
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This report does not fall at all well in public opinion, since in the last two weeks, two other scandals have touched some Latin American countries.
the Panama Papers and history of the hacker who confesses to having manipulated several Latin American electoral process, left poor showing many governments.
Hacking Team provided malware to their customers, which could be installed in cell phones or computers and can access all kinds of information, including the geographical position of users.
in its analysis, Digital Rights concludes that “the use of” Remote Control System “does not conform to legal standards of each country, while also appears to violate international standards fundamental rights “.
usually, to intercept citizens and their private communications, it requires a court order. Hacking Team had used as intermediaries to other companies as being an Italian company can not export some software
To date was announced filtration, 7 countries in Latin America were customers of Hacking Team. Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil and Chile.
Other countries such as Argentina, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela have neociado by the company but do not know if they materialize business.
Digital Rights questioned the fact that Latin American governments have used this type of measures, as the history of authoritarianism and human rights violations in this region have been significant in recent history.
But not only Latin America was peppered. Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan also are customers of the company, according to the think tank Freedom House, are part of the worst countries to exercise democratic freedoms.
It should be noted that Colombia, Mexico and Turkey are some of the worst countries where the profession of journalism, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists
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the report questions the use of software in Colombia and Mexico to monitor and spy on journalists and opposition members.
in Ecuador, it would have been used to spy on the opposition and Panama would have promptly used to intercept communications during elections in 2011, through a system called Galileo.
despite the scandals and filtration, the company continues to operate and there has been no research on the subject in any of the affected countries. This is possibly one of the most chilling paragraphs in the report.
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