Monitoring software for Egypt – Heise Newsticker

According to a report by Privacy International to Hacking Team and
 have supplied Nokia software and hardware of the Egyptian intelligence service.

The human rights organization Privacy International has released a report (PDF file), consequently supplied the Italian firm Hacking Team in 2015 monitoring software to Egypt Has. Nokia is accused in the report to have come in 2011, a network for government communication in times of crisis. While Nokia denies the view, justified at Hacking Team’s spokesman Eric Rabe the deal: Egypt is a country which Europe also sell warplanes

According to the 20-page report by Privacy International there in Egypt a Technical. Research Department (TRD), which is headed by a woman with the code name “Layla” and the domestic intelligence service Mukhabarat Al-Al-Amm zuarbeitet. The TRD is therefore closely with two German-Egyptian company called Egyptian German Telecommunications Industries (EGTI) and Advanced German Technology (AGT) have collaborated who allegedly imported by 2015 in software and hardware to monitor the opposition. In addition, the TRD would have shopped in 2011 over EGTI, a joint venture between the former Nokia Siemens Network and an Egyptian State Holding, network technology to ensure the government communication independently of the public telephone network, according to the report.

In a letter to Privacy International confirmed Nokia, although the supply of components, but refers to an “inherited” equipment contract that Siemens had concluded in 2007 with the former Mubarak regime. After the completion of this contract you have entertained no further business to Egypt more. In the software that it looks from the now functioning again firm Hacking Team is different. Here defended company spokesman Eric Rabe selling software worth almost one million euros: “It is perfectly legal to run software to Egypt Egypt is an ally of the United States, many European countries and even from Israel … The use of.. monitoring software is for all of us in the fight against terror important “ (dWI)