A Middle East Monitor article states that “…French investigative website, Disclose, had revealed in a previous report that the arms giants Dassault, Thales and Nexa Technology, which are French arms and spyware companies, sold a mass surveillance system to the Egyptian authorities. The report pointed out that the three technology companies came together in 2014 for a project to monitor the population outside the normal limits…”.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Dassault and Nexa Technologies to respond (Thales has responded to the Resource Centre on a similar allegation). Only Nexa Technologies responded (linked below).