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Article

26 Dec 2012

Author:
Alexandra Topping, Guardian [UK]

Customs urged to investigate UK spyware firm

Human rights campaigners have called for an investigation into the British surveillance technology company Gamma International, which they accuse of exporting controlled surveillance products without licences to regimes with dismal human rights records...[Privacy International] argues that Gamma had a responsibility before it was explicitly informed by the [UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills] to check if it needed an export licence and have the necessary licences in place...Gamma has repeatedly stated that it only supplies products and services to legitimate government organisations...[and] that the company co-operated with the export control organisations of the UK, US and Germany...The company was working on a code of conduct for "the industry as a whole" [says the company's CEO]