Tag: export controls regulation

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Italy to Revoke Export License for Cyber Surveillance Company

Brussels, BE — Today, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development will decide whether to revoke the currently suspended export licence to Area, a company under review for supply of surveillance technologies to Syrian intelligence. Access Now and a coalition of…

27 June 2017

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Business and Human Rights

Civil society coalition calls for stronger EU export controls of surveillance technologies with clear exemptions for security research

The coalition urges stronger safeguards for human rights in export control, as well as clear exemptions to protect security research. …

10 May 2017

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Digital Security

EU wants to limit export of surveillance technologies without hurting security research

Image source: Alec Perkins In September the EU Commission published its draft proposal for an improved export controls regime, seeking to modernise and simplify the existing system to limit the spread of technology for online surveillance. This “dual-use” technology has…

12 December 2016