Iran’s Centralized Surveillance Engine Takes Shape Amid Internet Blackouts
TL;DR
Iran has spent more than a decade building a centralized National Information Network to monitor and control citizens’ digital life. The recent near-total internet shutdown exposed the regime’s enhanced surveillance capabilities and its ability to restrict or cut off global access while keeping internal networks running, signaling a potential permanent disconnection or splintering and a broad, centralized surveillance apparatus.
Topics:worldtechnology#digital-rights#internet-shutdown#iran#national-information-network#surveillance#technology
- Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete WIRED
- Chinese technology underpins Iran’s internet control, report finds The Guardian
- Tightening the Net: China’s infrastructure of oppression in Iran ARTICLE 19 - Defending freedom of expression and information.
- Iran bleeds $1.56M every hour from internet blackout restrictions amid economic crisis: analyst foxnews.com
- Protests Don't Impede Iranian Spying on Expats, Syrians, Israelis Dark Reading | Security
Want the full story? Read the original reporting
Read on WIRED