U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes

http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/20/us-firms-accused-enabling-surveillance-central-asian-states/
Date Written:  2014-11-20
Publisher:  The Intercept
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16985

U.S. and Israeli companies have been selling surveillance systems to Central Asian countries with records of political repression and human rights abuse, according to a new report by Privacy International. The U.K.-based watchdog charges that the American firms Verint and Netronome enable surveillance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.