In order to prevent dictatorships from abusing European technology to crack down on political opposition, the EU started regulating the export of surveillance technology a few years ago. But that has far from stopped the exports to problematic countries, a cross-border investigation reveals.
A problem is that non-democratic countries use European standard configurated IT-systems – that have mass surveillance functions as a default feature.
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