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Bulgaria allowed surveillance tech firm to sell products to repressive regimes, report says
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Summary
A report by Human Rights Watch revealed that Bulgaria allowed a surveillance technology firm, Circles, to sell its products – including Pixcell, Landmark, and Voice Over Location Enabler software – to repressive regimes worldwide, including El Salvador, UAE, Serbia, and Azerbaijan. This highlights a failure within the EU’s export control regime to prevent the sale of sophisticated surveillance tools to governments with questionable human rights records, raising concerns about potential abuses and the company’s history with the blacklisted Intellexa.
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