Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe · ¶65
Cisco’s push succeeded. In 2001, the CCP selected Cisco to submit designs for the Golden Shield and later awarded it contracts to develop the program. Cisco, using engineers working from the United States, then created a massive surveillance system that “‘analyzed patterns of Falun Gong Internet activity to enable the intelligent identification of individual Falun Gong Internet users,’” while providing “‘real time monitoring’” of “‘Falun Gong Internet traffic patterns’” and sharing the results with the CCP to “facilitate the . . . forced conversion through torture’” of Falun Gong members. Id., at 711. Over time, Cisco engineers in San Jose, California continued to provide support while also upgrading and expanding the system. For example, Cisco later created a video-surveillance system that, combined with facial-recognition technology, has become a “‘primary means’ of identifying Falun…Read in context ›
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