Police around the world receive special training from a well-known agency Europeanof the Union for the best way to track the iPhone and Apple devices in general, according to documents that was released the Privacy International.
The records reveal that CEPOL, an EU law enforcement agency, has instructed officers around the world, from Europe to Africa, on how to use malware and other tools. These tools can be used to access citizens' phones and monitor social networks. In some cases, the training was funded by EU funds and went to countries with a history of human rights violations, according to Privacy International.
Outraged at past secretive initiatives for surveillance rather than protecting people from it, Privacy International and other human rights organizations are calling for immediate reform, demanding that money earmarked for hacking training be diverted to more altruistic programs.letterthe.
The revelations came days after the European Parliament announced plans to curb exports of espionage tools that could be used for human rights abuses.
European Parliament MEP Markéta Gregorová, who helped set up EU reforms covering surveillance tool exports, told Forbes:
"We've simply made it much more difficult to export cyber surveillance tools, and it's unacceptable that our own law enforcement agencies are training dictators to spy on their people and even recommending monitoring software. This is unacceptable and incompatible with our values and actions for reform. "