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Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

posted by Dopefish on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the money-no-longer-talks dept.

c0lo writes "No, unfortunately surveillance evangelism has not been made illegal overnight.

The EFF reports that, in an ironic twist of karma, FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations. Azano, and three Americans who acted as his agents, are now facing felony charges in an alleged conspiracy to illegally pump roughly $500,000 into local election campaigns in the border city of San Diego.

Does SoylentNews have contributors from Mexico to share with us some insight (or just local gossip) about this shoddy character?"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by stormwyrm on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:36AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @02:36AM (#7069) Journal

    I think the summary should have mentioned how Azano is chairman of a company called Surveillance Tracking Devices (rather aptly abbreviated STD...), which got a no-bid contract to provide phone and computer hacking technology to the Mexican military in 2011, and how he has been promoting and encouraging the use of such technology worldwide, mostly to governments. It wasn't immediately clear until I skimmed the EFF link why he was called a "surveillance evangelist".

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