IWPR posted an article on August 20, 2019, about Cyber Surveillance in Cuba. Below are some key highlights:
- “Part of my work was maintaining computers,” he explained. “But sometimes my boss ordered me to monitor what a reporter or worker was Googling or looking at.”
- Álvaro felt like a spy during his four years working as a network administrator at the state news agency Prensa Latina (PL)
- The assignments even included monitoring the private communications of journalists about to travel outside Cuba as PL correspondents
- Many of them stayed in hotel chains where Ávila Link operates, which means that any customer in these places who obtains and activates a card to access the internet is registered by the software – along with their online activity
- Ucciferri described SIBIOS as “a centralised database that mainly stores fingerprints and photographs of the faces of all the people who live in the country, including foreigners who visit”
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