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Big Brother Building in Romania Phase Two
ByTechBrain 4 June 20174 October 2025
The companies chosen to build the EU-funded data collection system for Romania’s intelligence agency are hardly the cleanest. In late May 2017, the Romanian Information Service (SRI), Romania’s intelligence agency, selected the companies that will run the controversial SII Analytics project, which IT and surveillance experts described as a Big Brother-like data hoarding system. The…
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EU Helps Romanian Intelligence Agency to Officially Become Big Brother
ByMarius Dragomir 29 September 20164 October 2025
Thanks to a generous EU grant, Romania’s controversial intelligence agency is mingling stocks of databases from the country’s public institutions to monitor people. That could hurt many, but in particular those critical to the authorities and their friends. Imagine this: you go online in your office and with a mere click you find out that…
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