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Ryan Gallagher

@rj_gallagher

Investigative reporter @business. Email: [email protected] Signal/WhatsApp: +44 737-678-6842

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US-Canadian tech company Sandvine developed controversial spy tool to help governments track encrypted Signal & WhatsApp messages. Recently quietly scrapped effort to sell to US agencies DEA & FBI after layoffs. Pitched product to govts across Europe, Middle East, Asia:…

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Hack of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Eltantawy's iPhone brings scrutiny to US-Canadian company Sandvine, whose 'deep packet inspection' technology allegedly aided the delivery of spyware to his device earlier this year: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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New research identifies NSO Group spyware campaign amid Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict; a dozen prominent figures in Armenia had iPhones hacked, including UN official, war crimes investigator, journalists, academics, a govt spokesperson. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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I spoke to the Big Take podcast about my story on the Israeli firm Rayzone & its product Echo, which is repurposing advertising data on a vast scale to help dozens of government agencies worldwide track people:

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Four directors of German spyware firm FinFisher indicted over $5m deal to provide Turkey with tool used to hack government opponents; prosecutor says they tried to conceal sale via company in Bulgaria, violated export controls. Could face jail time. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Twitter sued for allegedly helping to silence Saudi critics; suit claims Saudis targeted numerous dissidents by accessing Twitter’s confidential data via employees recruited as spies bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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I wrote about an Israeli company called Rayzone, which is using the advertising industry as a vehicle to collect vast amounts of data from mobile phones, then repurposing the data to help dozens of government agencies worldwide track people. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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