Cisco Betrayal, Collaborates With China to Persecute Citizens

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have asked a U.S. court to allow Cisco to be sued for human rights abuses in its collaboration with the Chinese government to persecute practitioners of the meditation practice Falun Gong.

EFF lawyers claim to have evidence that Cisco purposefully customized general purpose routers to help the Chinese authorities identify, track, and ultimately imprison Falun Gong practitioners.

“China’s record of human rights abuses against the Falun Gong is notorious, including detention, torture, forced conversions, and even deaths,” says EFF on its website. “These violations have been well-documented by the U.N., the U.S. State Department, and many others around the world, including documentation of China’s use of sophisticated surveillance technologies to facilitate this repression.”

Is Cisco trampling on our freedoms as well? You decide.

The EFF documents listed the following allegations to be brought to court, which they believe give a strong footing for the case to go forward:

• A library of carefully analyzed patterns of Falun Gong Internet activity (or “signatures”) that enable the Chinese government to uniquely identify Falun Gong Internet users;

• Several log/alert systems that provide the Chinese government with real time monitoring and notification based on Falun Gong Internet traffic patterns;

• Applications for storing data profiles on individual Falun Gong practitioners for use during interrogation and “forced conversion” (i.e., torture);

• Applications for storing and sharing videos of “efficient forced conversions” for purposes of training security officers on successful methods;

• Applications for categorizing individual Falun Gong practitioners by their likely susceptibility to different methods of “forced conversion”;

• Highly advanced video and image analyzers that Cisco marketed as the “only product capable of recognizing over 90% of Falun Gong pictorial information;” and

• A nationwide video surveillance system, which enabled the Chinese government to identify and detain Falun Gong practitioners.

How does Cisco CEO John Chambers see the China investment.

This from Helen McGirt of fastcompany back in 2008.

“Our business is growing 30% year over year there,” adding that Cisco has committed to investing $16 billion in public-private partnerships in China. “No one has the reach and trust that we do. No one could offer the help that we could.”

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