Nokia's equipment is powering Putin’s surveillance apparatus

 

• Despite stopping sales in Russia, Nokia’s equipment continues to power Moscow’s digital surveillance apparatus:
• For 5+ years, Nokia provided equipment to link the System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM) to MTS, Russia’s largest telecom provider:
• FSB -- Russia’s main intelligence service -- uses SORM to listen in on phone conversations & it is being used to crack down on domestic dissent against the invasion of Ukraine.
• Nokia acknowledged providing the equipment & stated that Russian law required it to make products enabling Russian telecoms to connect with SORM.
• Nokia executives first pled innocence. When confronted with internal docs, they suggested that if they had not served the FSB, then Huawei would have.