#Australia #Africa #Cybersecurity #Surveillance: "- Telstra purchased Fiji-based Digicel Pacific in July 2022, backed with more than $2 billion in Australian government financing
- For-profit surveillance companies market their services to governments as a way to track criminals and terrorists, but the services have been abused in order to spy on journalists, activists, and political opponents
- The misuse of Digicel Pacific dates back to before Telstra's purchase of the network"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-01/australia-owned-pacific-mobile-network-likely-exploited-by-spies/102784160?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web