the Hacking Team software stirs Latin America
the use of spyware by some States would be illegal and sometimes directed against political opponents, says a report
The software Hacking Team returns to cause controversy in Latin America. Two days after the publication of a report in Spanish by the hacker who had claimed responsibility for the cyber attack last July at the expense of the Italian company producer of intrusion and surveillance software, now comes a report (in Spanish) signed by ‘ Latin American organization for digital rights Derechos Digitales detailing the use of such software in the various countries of the region. The thesis of the report is that many of these countries would have violated its own laws or forced to use spyware produced by Hacking Team. Not only: in some cases the document – signed by the lawyer Gisela Perez de Acha – accuses some governments have used this tool against political opponents and journalists.
“As we shall see, when surveillance technology is not specifically regulated, opens the door to the establishment of authoritarian practices in the region, practices that operate outside the law,” he writes the organization for the rights digital.
What countries are we talking about? Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and Panama have bought licenses for the use of RCS, the software produced by Hacking Team, the report said. While Argentina, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela were at least in negotiation. The contracts went to the port have gone through intermediaries, in particular Robotec companies (for Colombia, Ecuador and Panama) and NICE Systems (Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala). But what are the most critical aspects according to the authors of the report?
ECUADOR
According to the report, and according to the Associated Press, the Hacking Team software would be used by the Ecuadorian government against Carlos Figueroa, an opponent of the Rafael Correa government. It is a doctor and activist, who in 2014 was sentenced to six months in prison for “insults” to the president. Not only according to a technical analysis conducted by researchers of the project Tor there would be traces of the use of RCS by Ecuador against a range of organizations linked to the opposition to the Correa government.
In short, the government “actively opponents spy and activists on its territory through the National Intelligence Secretariat (Senain)”, the report said. The Senain would buy the software through Robotec (and Theola branch) of 535 thousand euro more than 75 thousand annual maintenance.
MEXICO
“Mexico is experiencing a serious human rights crisis,” the report said. “Eight of the ten authorities who purchased RCS did not have the power to exercise oversight.” And again: “In a context marked by enforced disappearances, torture, impunity and violence against journalists, the Mexican government appears as the most important customer of Hacking Team in the world, with a total of 5,808,875 Euros for the purchase of 15 licenses “, through the intermediary company SYM Servicios Integrales. The intelligence agency CISEN alone asked 2074 judicial permission to use the software. Beyond this, the report said, the government would use this software “to spy on political opponents and journalists,” as the political opposition and journalists Ernesto Cordero, the Puebla state.
In addition, the legal claim of Derechos Digitales, the Constitution establishes that only the federal authorities or state public prosecutors may ask a judge to intercept communications. So the software bought by the States of Jalisco, Queretaro, Puebla, Campeche and Yucatan would be illegal.
“Similarly, Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is a state-owned company that is dedicated to the extraction of energy resources and does not have the power to intercept communications,” writes the report. Even PEMEX would in fact among the customers according to the documentation online output (never confirmed nor denied by the company) after the hack.
PANAMA
In Panama the RCS use history is nothing short of incredible. To want to buy the software (750 thousand euro) would be the same ex-president Ricardo Martinelli who, regardless of the software Hacking Team and other events is then finished on trial before the Supreme Court, accused of illegally intercepted dozens of people between political opponents, trade unionists and dissidents. The report recalled that after the election of the new President Varela, installations and equipment used to handle the intrusion software are “lost”, or rather disappeared (the suspicion is that if they are brought to Martinelli the men away). A disappearance that had taken off guard by surprise and even the same employees of Hacking Team.
HONDURAS
The report recalls how Honduras – through the National Directorate of Investigations and Intelligence (DNII) – would buy RCS by NICE Systems and a “special” and controversial intermediary, the well-known merchant of weapons Ori Zoller.
THE COMMENT OF HACKING TEAM
“As reported in the report and the fact that some States could not use our software is basically the opinion of these activists, who have their own agenda and does not seem to be based on the law; Also no one has raised legal action on the matter, “said the Press Eric Rabe, a spokesman for Hacking Team.
The report – which reviews also other countries, including Colombia – recalls that no interested country has so far opened investigations into all those aspects, with the exception of Panama, where the anti-corruption authority is conducting an investigation on the disappearance of the material. And where the lawyer Alvin Weeden has filed a complaint for a number of crimes (including invasion of privacy and correspondence) against a group of Panamanian officials, against the representatives of Robotec and even against a handful of employees to Hacking Team.
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