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HELPING TO SECURE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY EXPOSING THREATS TO USER PRIVACY IN A CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD HELPING TO SECURE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY EXPOSING THREATS TO USER PRIVACY IN A CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD THE OTF SPONSORS THE MOBILE SURVEILLANCE MONITOR PROJECT TO IMPROVE VISIBILITY INTO MOBILE THREATS The Open Technology Fund OTF an independent organization committed to advancing global Internet freedom and counteracting surveillance has awarded The Mobile Intelligence Alliance MIA with its Internet Freedom Fund IFF to support the development and launch of Mobile Surveillance Monitor a multisource geointelligence solution providing insights into repressive global surveillance activity targeting atrisk groups around the world. With its technology partners Mobile Surveillance Monitor processes threat intelligence data from leading NGO research cybersecurity threat intelligence and open source communities. It exposes threat actors and their targets via publiclyaccessible dashboards notifications reports and research tools to improve investigations into the sources of mobile privacy violations around the world. MOBILE INTELLIGENCE ALLIANCE PARTNERS WITH THE CITIZEN LAB TO RESEARCH UNAUTHORIZED SURVEILLANCE Mobile Intelligence Alliance MIA is pleased to announce a multiyear collaboration agreement with The Citizen Lab an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs Public Policy University of Toronto to research targeted surveillance from mobile networks.