State Hacking, Cyber Surveillance and Targeted Killings Within the Digital Panopticon

Discussion with Scott Gilmore regarding the human rights implications of technology, including cyber surveillance of human rights activists and journalists and state authorized hacks. We discuss the legal and policy issues respecting Western companies selling technology to states that are known as pervasive human rights abusers and holding foreign states accountable for cyber surveillance and hacking of their dissidents on U.S. soil through the tort exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Additionally, we discuss Syria’s Electronic Army, its avowed crusade against the media, both foreign and domestic and Scott’s current suit against Syria under the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for the targeted killing of war correspondent Marie Colvin in 2012. We also discuss the benefits of technology for social activism and human rights investigations and prosecutions.

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