Pt I on behalf of Archimedes,” a US-based military contractor. Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL group, conducted a surveillance operation in Yemen, using psychological profiling, “strategic communications campaigns,” and infiltration of foreign operatives into indigenous communities through unwitting local partners whom they were instructed to deceive.
https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/05/23/scl-group-yemen-surveillance-cambridge-analytica/
Pt. II The partnership between SCL and Archimedes highlights the seamless web of relationships between private intelligence firms and Western governments engaged in counter-intelligence activities in the Middle East. These large scale surveillance operations have been conducted without the knowledge of the Western public or input from elected officials, and would have remained mostly unknown had a series of leaks and hacking operations not placed them in the public domain.
Does this means that both the Americans and the Russians are hiring the same private surveillance firms?
If you honestly believed all these groups weren't all in the same bed together, jerking each other off, you've gotta be pretty naive.
I mean, we literally are part of a group called The Five Eyes which only exists because all five of those countries have laws that they can't spy on their own citizens, so they get around it by data-sharing what they have on each other's citizens.
They're scum, and they don't care who they work with, what laws they break, or how fucked it will make society, to surveil everybody all the time. That's their goal and they don't give a fuck who they work with, because the goal is obviously fucking authoritarian. So no shit they'll work with people who work for authoritarian regimes.
It's kind of like those groups who sell surveillance software to despotic regimes. They claim it's the regimes responsibility to follow their own laws, and they have no responsibility of the people they sell the software to misuse it. It's all just smoke and mirrors to say "We honestly don't give a fuck who this hurts."
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