By Ryan Gallagher / BloombergAfter successfully creating a healthcare app for doctors to view medical records, Diego Fasano, an Italian entrepreneur, got some well-timed advice from a police officer friend: Go into the surveillance business, because law enforcement desperately needs technological help. The app would also allow Fasano’s company, eSurv, to give law enforcement access to a device’s microphone, camera, stored files and encrypted messages. Fasano christened the spyware “Exodus.”“I started to go to all the Italian prosecutors’ offices to sell it,” said Fasano, a 46-year-old with short, dark-brown hair and graying stubble. In Rome, Naples, Milan.”Even the country’s foreign intelligence agency, L’Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna, came calling for Exodus’ services, Fasano said. Both companies have said they sell their equipment to law enforcement and intelligence agencies to fight crime and terrorism.
