In November 2011, the Bloomberg news agency revealed how French software company Qosmos SA, one of France’s leading experts in the most advanced internet interception technology known as Deep Packet Inspection, was sub-contracted by German firm Utimaco, itself sub-contracted by Italian company Area SpA, to provide Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad with a mass surveillance system with which to spy on his opponents.
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