Suggestion for Export Limitation

The United States government should enact legal provisions to prevent foreign governments from buying American high-tech products likely to be used to facilitate human rights violations. The following is my suggestion for products related to Internet (and telephone) censorship and surveillance:

(1) Network equipment, computers, or systems designed or capable to be used to extract digital IDs from photos or voice or videos for the same purpose as traditional fingerprints (referred to hereafter as “virtual fingerprint”);

(2) Network equipment, computers, or systems designed or capable to be used to track users or filter data in digital networks (including Internet) for the purpose of clamp down free speech; (If this is too broad, add “with capacity to process data in exceeds of 500 Mbps”.)

(3) Equipment, computers, or systems designed or capable to be used to track telephone users or filter telephone (including traditional phones, mobile phones, and computer soft-phones) messages and conversations for the purpose of clamp down free speech;

(4) Software/hardware systems that facilitate central management of equipment, computers and/or systems described in (1), (2), (3); (If this is too broad, add “with capacity of managing at least 10 nodes”.)

(5) Network equipment, computers, or systems designed or capable to be used to transmit, route, store, compare, or search virtual fingerprints as described in (1), user-tracking, censorship and surveillance as in (2), and phone messages or conversations as in (3);