As Congressional hearings about how U.S. Internet companies do business in China are set to begin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling for the industry and government to work together to develop simple guidelines to decrease the harm done by participating in authoritarian regimes. “Without careful thought, even well-meaning Internet companies can become the handmaidens of state repression. Internet routers can be turned into powerful wiretapping tools,” said EFF Activism Coordinator Danny O’Brien. “Web servers and search engines can become honeypots of personal data, plundered by state police to identify dissidents.”
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