The Israeli cyberweapons and surveillance industry is closely linked to Tel Aviv’s diplomacy and normalization program in Africa, from Togo to Morocco.

Samsung has quietly installed Israeli spyware on its phones sold in the Middle East and North Africa, sparking fears of surveillance and espionage.

Sandvine, criticized for supplying surveillance spyware to authoritarian regimes, announced it would cease operations in Egypt, raising questions about the reasons behind this decision despite years of collaboration.

The Times report revealed that: “By some calculations Italians are the most wiretapped people in the world,” under the pretext of combating and thwarting organized gang crimes.