Cybersecurity
Ethiopian Government Accused of Spying on U.S. Citizen
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Ethiopia was accused by a U.S. citizen with links to opponents of the East African nation’s government of spying on him with surveillance software on his home computer, according to a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Washington.
The complaint cites a decades-old federal anti-bugging law, the Wiretap Act, to challenge a foreign government’s electronic snooping against an American.