Odaily News Network surveillance company Sandvine has abandoned plans to sell controversial internet surveillance technology that can track encrypted messages to U.S. law enforcement agencies and fired most of the people involved in the program, four people familiar with the matter said. staff. Its unclear whether Sandvine has also stopped overseas sales. It is reported that Sandvine is promoting this new product Digital Witness to governments and law enforcement agencies in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. The company says the technology can covertly monitor peoples internet usage and encrypted messages sent by popular apps like Meta Platforms WhatsApp and Signal. Sandvine had previously offered a trial version of the technology to the United States, but a deteriorating overall economy and ongoing concerns about the companys previous collaboration with authoritarian governments hampered the products success. Rather than hacking a device or bypassing encryption like spyware infiltrates a phone, Digital Witness analyzes the vast amounts of encrypted traffic traveling through Internet networks, collecting and analyzing the metadata of the communications. Sandvine touts Digital Witness as a revolutionary solution designed to help investigative agencies extract clues from network data that can help analyze encrypted traffic, messages, voice calls, contacts, cryptocurrency transactions and information about personal lifestyles. classify and correlate information. (Bloomberg)