WikiLeaks’ ‘Spy Files’ point finger at Czech firm Phonexia

WikiLeaks says ‘secret new industry’ spanning 25 countries including the Czech Republic aims to intercept data of ‘entire populations’

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Brian Kenety | 02.12.2011

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the SKUP conference for investigative journalism in Norway, in March 2010

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.”

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