D66 demands of minister Rosenthal of Foreign Affairs a ‘hard guarantee’ that Dutch ict companies do not help to aftaptechnologie to dictatorships as Syri before and Iran. Among other British companies make them guilty.
The netherlands is currently conducting a strict export control on so-called strategic goods. Companies who provide software, it is examined whether the Iranian dictatorship is not supported. It is not yet known whether a Dutch company is actually equipment to a dictatorship delivers.
Last month, a number of companies in the news because they aftaptechnologie of dictatorships sold. Including the American Blue Coat Systems yielded to his own words, ” unintended filtering devices to Syria, which is currently undergoing a popular revolution prevails. With the equipment, the internet can be censored. The British Creativity Software sold software to Iran for the detection of mobile phones. Government officials were consequently reported to be an Iranian journalist’s arrest. The journalist suspects that the Iranian government him via his mobile close the holes.
The Iranian government is currently working on an alternative to the existing internet. The network follows the islamic rules, so the ‘pernicious’ influences of the world wide web. The opposition thinks that the government with the ‘clean web’ of information may censor who does not want to. Also this has D66 questions. According to the democrats, through European satellites or from neighboring countries access to the ‘free’ internet are provided. Also, the European Union must actively impart knowledge about the transformation of smartphones into wi-fi networks.