Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has issued alerts to approximately 50,000 users, which it believes are targets of seven surveillance employment entities located in China, Israel, India and Macedonia.
The global employment surveillance industry targets specific individuals to sabotage their devices and accounts and gather intelligence. Although companies often claim that they only target criminals, Meta investigations reportedly found that the industry’s targets were “indiscriminate, including journalists, dissidents, critics of authoritarian regimes, opposition families, and human rights activists.
In order to take action, Meta has banned 7 entities targeting online users in more than 100 countries/regions; shared its findings with researchers, other platforms, and policy makers; issued cessation and cessation warnings; People send notifications.
“These companies are part of a large industry that indiscriminately provides intrusive software tools and surveillance services to any customer-no matter who they are targeting or they may violate human rights,” a company official said in an article about news Wrote in the blog post.
The entities that Meta targets include Cobwebs Technologies, Black Cube, Cytrox, BelltroX, Bluehawk CI, and Cytrox. Meta also reported that it deleted about 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts that were associated with “an unidentified entity in China” and were responsible for creating monitoring software for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS X, and Solaris operating systems.
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