Spyware against civil society, unlawful surveillance equipment, communication surveillance and countrywide surveillance.

If Internet is a wonderful and convenient network when it comes to interact, inform, learn, trade, communicate and improve our living and working conditions, this network is also the most dangerous and most controlled as never seen before.

Surveillance and monitoring fundamentally can help and safeguard, but more and more these convenient capabilities, that offer Internet, are extraverted by a set of organizations, governments and insidious people. 

Henceforth, spyware provides the ability to read personal emails, listen-in skype conversations, and remotely turn on a computers camera and microphone without its owner knowing about it.

In partnership with Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy International, Detekt is a free tool that can scan your Windows computer for traces of known surveillance spyware used to target and monitor human rights defenders and journalists around the world.

Connectikpeople.co, soon Retinknow.ga, recalls that the tool is provided without warranties or guarantees of any kind.

You can also find many reports on the use of spyware against civil society here. You can learn more about the trade in unlawful surveillance equipment by visiting the Coalition Against Unlawful Surveillance Exports website.