The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has for the first time found a surveillance software company to be in violation of human rights guidelines, following a complaint about the notorious British-German spyware outfit Gamma International.

Gamma allegedly sold its FinFisher spyware tool to the Bahraini regime, which is a big-time human rights abuser that seems to have used the software to persecute activists. The complaint to the OECD’s U.K. national contact point (NCP – an agency operated by the British government) was made by the right group Privacy International, which has also made a criminal complaint about Gamma, along with Reporters Without Borders and other groups.