Vodafone Hands Data To Egyptian Police

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @07:52AM from the cost-of-doing-business dept.

Jack Spine writes "A Vodafone exec has admitted the company handed communications data to the Egyptian police following riots over food shortages last year, to aid the identification of suspects. Egyptian law enforcement has a habit of torturing and murdering detainees, or of having them 'disappear.' This is similar to Yahoo handing details of Chinese dissidents over to the authorities in 2005. It's nice to have it confirmed that multinational service providers shelve morals in the pursuit of cash."

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yeah? by Lord+Ender · 2009-02-11 08:06 · Score: 4, Informative

It's pretty unrealistic to expect companies to violate the laws of the countries they operate in. It is sure to damage their own business (which is their reason d'etre), and their employees could go to jail.

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Re:This is Government's Job, Not Corporations by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-11 08:21 · Score: 1, Informative

Yes.
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