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Exclusive: Egypt Blocked Facebook Internet Service Over Surveillance - Sources

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File photo of a man posing with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in SarajevoBy Yasmeen Abutaleb and Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Egypt blocked Facebook Inc's Free Basics Internet service at the end of last year after the U.S. company refused to give the Egyptian government the ability to spy on users, two people familiar with the matter said. Free Basics, launched in Egypt in October, is aimed at low-income customers, allowing anyone with a cheap computer or smartphone to create a Facebook account and access a limited set of Internet services at no charge. The Egyptian government suspended the service on Dec. 30 and said at the time that the mobile carrier Etisalat had only been granted a temporary permit to offer the service for two months.




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