Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving dozens of 'non-democratic' countries as part of a major overhaul of the company.
This change in the company's direction comes after years of investigations by Bloomberg, which reported that Sandvine had sold its internet surveillance products to authoritarian regimes, including Belarus, Egypt, Eritrea, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan.
Sandvine said that it based its decision to withdraw from the dozens of countries on a review of its operations based on The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2023 Democracy Index, which categorizes countries based on their 'regime type.'
As part of this new strategy, Sandvine said it has already left 32 countries and is in the process of leaving another 24 countries.
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