Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 ‘non-democratic’ countries

Sandvine announced it will exit 56 non-democratic countries—having already left 32 and planning to leave 24 more by the end of 2025, with Egypt by March 2025—aligning its business to democracies per the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index and after consultations with U.S. agencies. The move follows its addition to the U.S. Commerce Entity List over enabling mass web monitoring and censorship and comes amid broader U.S. actions against spyware vendors, with prior investigations and Citizen Lab research documenting misuse of Sandvine’s technology by authoritarian regimes and in spyware redirection operations.