Vodafone Hands Data To Egyptian Police 104
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."
Or? (Score:3, Interesting)
You know, if authorities known for torture, murder, and making people "disappear" demanded something from me, I'd give it to 'em.
Call me an evil capitalist pig, but I don't want to piss off people like that.
Re:This is Government's Job, Not Corporations (Score:3, Interesting)
You think the moral thing to do is to disregard the laws of the country you're operating in (assuming that it was a legal request for information, something like a US subpoena)? Just because you disapprove of their criminal justice system?
There's a slippery slope here. I would like to avoid handing dissident information over to governments in general (and that includes my own), but if a country cannot enforce its own laws on companies operating in their territory but based elsewhere, there's a whole lot of bad things that are going to happen.