Do you use an iPhone, BlackBerry or Gmail? “Well, you’re all screwed,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said this week, unveiling the whistleblower’s new ‘Spy Files’ project, which purports to expose how the private sector is making a fortune in global surveillance by developing high-tech gadgets allowing governments to track their citizens’ private communications. The Czech firm Phonexia is among the “collaborators.”

Ex-Czech PM Mirek Topolánek (ODS) has dismissed allegations in US Embassy in Prague cables — published by WikiLeaks — that his advisor and close friend, lobbyist Marek Dalík, sought an €18 million bribe from US-owned Austrian arms maker Steyr in the Pandur contract. Meanwhile, Kurier reports the ‘first concrete results’ of an Austrian-Czech probe into the deal, agreed under Topolánek, is imminent.

A series of cables from the US embassy in Prague show ambassadors and top officials struggling to comprehend the size and scope of Czech corruption, according to dispatches leaked this week by the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks. Czech citizens were getting increasingly angry but did not seem prepared to kick out the tarnished politicians and parties, the sometimes prescient cables add.

A leaked cable from the US Embassy in Prague from mid-2005 shows how the then-ambassador tried to propose a way of easing delays or refusals of ammunition shipments from the Czech Republic to trouble spots Iraq and Afghanistan. The US government and contractors wanted the surplus Soviet-era ammunition, but the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs sometimes refused permission or delayed shipments with extra questions.