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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:34:41 JST Minoru Saba

"Gunmen tried to assassinate a Tanzanian opposition politician after a telecoms company secretly passed his mobile phone data to the [Tanzanian] govt"
"The arrangement...was revealed in a claim by a former internal investigator for the company that was heard at the Central London employment tribunal"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/firm-disclosed-phone-data-of-shot-tanzanian-politician-tundu-lissu-uk-tribunal
🔸Memory jogged re Echelon. The phone is not your friend😬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
#Tigo #telecoms #whistleblower #DataProtection
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  ECHELON
  
  ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes.Created in the late 1960s to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War, the ECHELON project became formally established in 1971. By the end of the 20th century, it had greatly expanded. Organization The UKUSA intelligence community was assessed by the European Parliament (EP) in 2000 to include the signals intelligence agencies of each of the member states: the Government Communications Headquarters of the United Kingdom, the National Security Agency of the United States, the Communications Security Establishment of Canada, the Australian Signals Directorate of Australia, and the Government Communications Security Bureau of New Zealand....
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  Firm disclosed phone data of shot Tanzanian politician, UK tribunal hears
  
  from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/david-pegg
  
  Tigo’s former investigator claims he was unfairly dismissed for raising concerns over 2017 attack on Tundu Lissu

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