It might be difficult to believe, but a new market for covert surveillance equipment has grown into a huge multi-million pound global business in a short few years without any governments or international authorities seemingly showing any interest in exerting any form of control. Of course there has always been a surveillance equipment industry selling high-ticket items to governments and big organisations, but what is new is the burgeoning retail market for surveillance equipment. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal as far back as 2011: "A retail market for surveillance tools has sprung up from nearly zero in 2001 to about $5 billion a year".
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