#USA #China #Surveillance #Cisco #Privacy #FreedomOfSpeech #HumanRights: "EFF has long pushed companies that provide powerful surveillance tools to governments to take affirmative steps to avoid aiding and abetting human rights abuses. We have also wor...
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#USA #China #Surveillance #Cisco #Privacy #FreedomOfSpeech #HumanRights: "EFF has long pushed companies that provide powerful surveillance tools to governments to take affirmative steps to avoid aiding and abetting human rights abuses. We have also worked to ensure they face consequences when they do not.
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit helped this cause, by affirming its powerful 2023 decision that aiding and abetting liability in U.S. courts can apply to technology companies that provide sophisticated surveillance systems that are used to facilitate human rights abuses.
The specific case is against Cisco and arises out of allegations that Cisco custom-built tools as part of the Great Firewall of China to help the Chinese government target members of disfavored groups, including the Falun Gong religious minority. The case claims that those tools were used to help identify individuals who then faced horrific consequences, including wrongful arrest, detention, torture, and death."
Human Rights Claims Against Cisco Can Move Forward (Again)
Google and Amazon – You Should Take Note of Your Own Aiding and Abetting Risk EFF has long pushed companies that provide powerful surveillance tools to governments to take affirmative steps to avoid aiding and abetting human rights abuses. We have also worked to ensure they face consequences when...
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