US imposes sanctions on companies that monitoring equipment supply

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U.s. president Obama has imposed sanctions announced against foreign persons and companies that deliver technology that authoritarian regimes make it possible to violate human rights. It is concerned with Iran and Syri lwa.

Obama wants companies to stop authoritarian regimes with technology to allow their citizens to be able to monitor, so reports The Washington Post. Among other equipment for the tracking of owners of a mobile phone falls under, as well as the software and hardware for internet traffic, to drain or to block. It called the Us president to Iran and Syria in particular.

According to the Us president’s technology are intended for citizens ‘ empowerment and should not be used to make them are correct, to suppress. According to the Americans, for example, has the Iranian regime equipment to their Syrian allies, given that mobile traffic is interrupted.

In addition, Iran also software to internet traffic can be monitored. The Iranian regime used such software in your own country. In October went into hiding, however, messages that in Syria, American filtering devices of the company Blue Coat Systems to be used.

Modern technology, such as smartphones, and the use of the internet, played an important role in the so-called Arab Spring. While the population protests coordinated through social networking sites, tried various regimes precisely for internet traffic to block or monitor. This process would often use made of technology by western companies being sold.