The Pakistani government has recently started ramping up its surveillance efforts to monitor and track the online activity of citizens in the country.
Last month, the Pakistani security agencies received a green light to openly listen to citizens’ phone calls, intercept WhatsApp messages and more. The PTA also recently completed its firewall trial to control social media. While we don’t have the details on what software Pakistan is using to do so or how it’s operating, Pakistan is reportedly acquiring this technology from several firms across the globe.
According to Surveillance Watch, which tracks data from surveillance companies and the countries using them, Pakistan is acquiring spyware and other tracking software from over 15 companies. These companies originate from several countries including the US, China and even Israel.
The company shows an interactive map of every country acquiring spying services from across the globe. Here is how the website is described on its About page:
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry. Founded by privacy advocates, most of whom were personally harmed by surveillance tech, our mission is to shed light on the companies profiting from this exploitation with significant risk to our lives.
You can find Pakistan in the list of “Known Targets” on the website, which shows the name of each firm providing spyware tech to Pakistan. Some notorious names include Israel’s Q Cyber Technologies SARL, which is the parent company of the NSO Group that sells Pegasus, one of the most advanced hacking tools available today. Other names include Predator, Gamma Group, I-Soon, and many others.
These companies are providing facial recognition tech, spyware for smartphones, surveillance through video, voice-to-text transcription for intercepted phone calls, deep packet inspection, and a lot more. You can check out the website for yourself here.
Not to citizens, it is to catch 190 million pound thieves
finally right thing from them
We all know israel is pakistan real daddy .
Pakistan ka Matlab kia ?
Israel ka putra
Welcome to the world’s second and largest open-air prison, Pakistan.
Uae is using 49 and usa is using 60 are people in these countries are in prison. All countries are using our country should not be behind.
Don’t worry . Pakistan is allied to Israel .
I really don’t get this drama, they can’t prevent what people do online just by saying ahh we are iNpEctIng dEeP PaCkEts, those mf just need access to your phone and other devices ofcourse with softwares like pagasus build by nsogroup and other types of backdoors, well they are trying to put some rules on tcp protocol and some others ( they can’t inspect all the traffic, like they can’t controll highways ) which causes slow down since now a days almost everything is encrypted
LOL propakistani must be named as ProPTI; bye the way which country isn’t spying on his citizens. It’s good if used to filter out the culprits.
army brat sighted
Chalo Acha hai . Israel ko paise denge. Palestine pe waste Kar Kar ke thak gai the
Kuch milega to sahi
So… using ‘foreign’ surveillance services to spy on your own people in the pretext of national security….nice.
Why not just outsource the whole national security services to the foreign companies/agencies.
wow these people that are suppose to protect us from external threats have decided to enslave us .