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New global coalition urges governments to keep surveillance technologies in check
The Coalition Against Unlawful Surveillance Exports (CAUSE) – which includes Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, FIDH, Human Rights Watch, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, Privacy International, and Reporters without Borders – aims to hold governments and private companies accountable for abuses linked to the…international trade in communication surveillance…Governments are increasingly using spying software, equipment, and related tools to violate the right to privacy and a host of other human rights…The website [of CAUSE] details the various communication surveillance technologies that have been made and supplied by private companies and also highlights the countries where these companies are based…