In 2010, Nokia Siemens Network was sued by Iranian dissidents who alleged that Nokia had provided the Iranian regime with devices which monitored, eavesdropped, filtered, and tracked mobile phones....

In 2010, Nokia Siemens Network was sued by Iranian dissidents who alleged that Nokia had provided the Iranian regime with devices which monitored, eavesdropped, filtered, and tracked mobile phones. The suit was filed after Isa Sakarkhiz, a prominent Iranian journalist who was instrumental in illuminating Iran’s oppression of the press, was arrested by government agents who had tracked his mobile phone using Nokia’s Intelligence Solutions tool which had been sold to the state-owned telecommunications provider. This Nokia system, which was sold and specifically modified to the government’s needs, was composed of (1) a monitoring area which provided for the centralized deep packet inspection of both voice and data communications, and (2) an intelligence area which provided for real-time data mining. Although Nokia claims to have abandoned the software which provides for monitoring of communications, they have declared themselves immune from responsibility as they are a corporation.