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- EFF wants Cisco to face trial for helping China persecute Falun Gong members
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is trying to rally a federal appeals court to hear a lawsuit in which network hardware maker Cisco is accused of helping China identify members of a religious minority who were later tortured by its government. Cisco built the Golden Shield system that blocks foreign content and tracks online activity in China. According to the EFF, the plaintiffs sufficiently alleged that Cisco knew that its creation would be used to identify as well as aid in the capture and torture of members of a spiritual practice known as Falun Gong. The company was named in…
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