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Australian Police Spend Millions on Spy Programs: WikiLeaks

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Australian Police Spend Millions on Spy Programs: WikiLeaks

Local Editor

Police in the Australian state of New South Wales have spent over $2 million on powerful spy programs to monitor the smartphones and notebooks of Australian citizens, according to the latest revelations from WikiLeaks on Monday.


The new batch of documents maintains that Australian police have used spyware from Gamma International, a German company specializing in developing spyware for remote computer monitoring, while conducting some investigations.

Sophisticated German-made software known as FinSpy enables spacious access to computer records, including full chat communications [e.g. Skype] and email monitoring, extracting files from hard drives, logging keystrokes and grabbing images of computer screens.
NSW Police used a set of spy programs developed by Gamma International, which cost the budget more than $2 million [1.8 million euro], according to the revelations.

Moreover, the ‘SpyFiles 4’ WikiLeaks publication also names police forces of the Netherlands, Singapore’s PCS Security Pte Ltd and intelligence arms of the Hungarian, Italian, and Bosnian governments as buyers of FinFischer malware.

Meanwhile also, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald promised to make public information about the New Zealand government’s spying on its own citizens.


Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team