President Barack Obama announced financial and travel sanctions against those...
President Barack Obama announced financial and travel sanctions against those who “perpetuate or facilitate grave human rights abuses” via information technology in Syria and Iran. In an executive order (http://xrl.us/bm4uzx) Monday, the president said the sanctions would be directed, among…
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others, against those who “have sold, leased, or otherwise provided, directly or indirectly, goods, services or technology to Iran or Syria likely to be used to facilitate computer or network disruption, monitoring or tracking that could assist in or enable serious human rights abuses.” They would also apply to persons found “to have operated, or to have directed the operation of, information and communications technology that facilitates computer or network disruption, monitoring or tracking” that enables serious human rights abuses in the two countries, it said. The sanctions are aimed at degrading the ability of the two governments to “acquire and utilize such technology to oppress their people,” it said. The White House’s order “rightly targets bad actors, not technology,” said TechAmerica. “The number one goal should be to curb the bad behavior -- not the technology -- as the President has done here."