trovicor
| trovicor GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| management | Peter Weidermann |
| Number of employees | 170 |
| sales | unknown |
| Branch | Surveillance technology |
| Website | www.trovicor.com |
The trovicor GmbH is a company specializing in surveillance technology company headquartered in Munich with offices in Dubai , Islamabad ( Pakistan ) and Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ).
company
The company was originally founded in 1993 as the Voice and Data Recording division of Siemens AG. As part of Siemens Networks, this division was incorporated into the joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) on April 1, 2007 under the new division name “Intelligence Solutions”. NSN in turn sold the business area as part of a transfer of operations on March 31, 2009 to the Munich financial investor Perusa Partners Fund 1 LP.
Products and customers
The core product is the "Monitoring Center" (formerly "Siemens Monitoring Center"), with which extensive interception measures are possible in telecommunication networks . Trovicor's products are only sold to government agencies.
Controversies, Big Brother Award
On June 22, 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported that NSN had sold surveillance technology to the Iranian state telecommunications monopoly and that it was being used in the suppression of the Iranian people. In particular, deep packet inspection would also be used. In the controversy that followed, NSN denied selling Deep Packet Inspection to Iran. In particular, Monitoring Center was only sold to Iran at the end of March 2009, that is, in close proximity to the transfer of the business area to Perusa Partners.
According to a report in the Guardian newspaper , after sales of surveillance technology became known, Nokia products were, in some cases, massively boycotted in Iran.
NSN and trovicor received a Big Brother Award in the business category in October 2009 .
According to the US magazine Bloomberg Markets , the human rights activist Abdulghani al-Chanjar was arrested in August 2010 after he was monitored by security forces in Bahrain using the software "Monitoring Center" from trovicor.
In 2012, fact reported deliveries to the Syrian regime.
In March 2013, Reporters Without Borders declared Trovicor and four other companies an enemy of the internet.
In 2015, Privacy International published deliveries from Trovicor to Pakistan.
swell
- ↑ trovicor website: Company History ( Memento from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: AIN News 10-2009 )
- ↑ BBC: "Hi-tech helps Iranian monitoring"
- ↑ a b c NSN Press Release: "Provision of Lawful Intercept Capability in Iran"
- ↑ a b Perusa Partners: Beteiligungen ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology - European Gear Used in Vast Effort to Monitor Communications
- ↑ ZDNet: Nokia Siemens denies delivery of wiretapping technology to Iran
- ↑ The Guardian: Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration'
- ↑ BigBrotherAwards 2009: Economy: German companies that offer surveillance technology for Internet and telephone
- ^ Süddeutsche.de: Big Brother Awards. An overview of the other 2009 winners
- ^ Spiegel Online: Cell phone monitoring: German company is said to have delivered spy technology to Bahrain on August 24, 2011
- ↑ taz.de: Wiretapping in Bahrain of 4 February 2011
- ↑ https://archive.today/20130818162904/http://www.mdr.de/ffekt/siemens106.html
- ↑ Also corporations among the "enemies of the Internet" heise.de from March 12, 2013
- ↑ https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/report-pakistan-is-building-mass-surveillance-system-to-riva
