The Italian firm Hacking Team, one of the most famous in the world for sophisticated tools that sells to governments and security agencies, is over again the focus of attention on the case of Giulio Regeni, the young Italian researcher killed in Cairo last January.
The Italian firm Hacking Team, one of the best known in the world for sophisticated tools that sells to governments and security agencies, it is over again the focus of attention on the case of Julius Regeni, the young Italian researcher killed in Cairo last January. On March 31, the Ministry of Economic Development (Mise) revoked the license of the company Milan export, which now can no longer freely export its global software. Hacking Team will have the opportunity to continue to distribute the spy program in Europe, but to do so outside the EU will have to apply for special permits that will be evaluated individually.
Customers “uncomfortable” dell ‘ hacking Team
the Mise then back to where they started – it was just the Ministry for having granted the license about a year ago – in part because of the problems that have divergent views: Italy and Egypt on the case of Julius Regeni, that the revocation document defines “changed political situation.” The reason is simple: in the past the Hacking Team would sell its software Egyptian intelligence, as evidenced by documents issued by the attack computer that hit the company in Milan in July. Intrusion that had revealed the existence of relations between the Italian and other nations with which, to date, the Hacking Team could be treated without resorting each time the Mise. We talk about nations such as Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Sudan and Ethiopia, as well as, of course, Egypt.
The involvement in the case Regeni
for having advanced some doubt on the work Hacking Team in the country where he died Regeni were two parliamentary questions based on a Privacy International document, which describes the manner in which the Egyptian government dissidents and journalists spy. Among other solutions, the Technical Research Department would do precisely with the Hacking Team software. He put the question therefore arises “if the sale to the Egyptian services software has been authorized by the Ministry of economic development, what were the checks made and the reasons for such authorization and if the Ministry of Economic Development has depth to which Egyptian governmental organization was intended “. But also “if there is evidence to rule out that the software has been used, in some way, against Regeni.”
The Vincenzetti CEO: “We will get back the license”
waiting for answers, the Ministry revoked the license of export, also emphasizing the importance of “insights and elements for assessment of respect for human rights” when it is considered “the export authorization of dual use technology from the Ministry economic development. ” In response to the news, the CEO of Hacking Team, David Vincenzetti, sent an internal memo in which he explains that he has already enabled the company to obtain legal permission again for export outside Europe. Similar restrictions have already been implemented against the Milanese reality in 2014, when the Mise revoked the license for a few months, only to be withdrawn due to strong lobbying practiced by the company.
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