BlueCoat: US technology surveilling Syrian citizens online

Article by Leila Nachawati

Tags: Syria , Civil Society in West Asia

In the context of repression in the Middle East and North Africa,  surveillance technology has played a key role in providing authoritarian  regimes with the tools necessary to track citizens online. Among these  companies, BlueCoat has proved to be the most efficient in helping the Syrian regime control every movement of Syrians on the Internet.