U.S. Firms Enable Surveillance in Tyrannical Asian Regimes

The European Union recently passed laws to make sure companies and governments do not sell software bundled with surveillance technology to tyrannical regimes, to curb the power and influence they have on everyday life in the country.
Even though the EU holds a lot of power, most security companies are based in the U.S., like a lot of technology companies. This means most of the big surveillance software creators are void from listening to the EU laws, and can sell to whoever they like.

It looks like some of these companies have been doing just that, with a new report from Privacy International highlighting Verint and Netronome, two U.S. based services, delivering software to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
UK based Watchdog spotted these surveillance sales and claim both U.S. companies are actively creating human rights violations and abuse, by selling the software to regimes who want to use it in harmful ways.
Verint has an Israeli-arm who supplies the data centers for Central Asian regimes. The data centers take information from the telephone, mobile and ISP networks, to gain all information on citizens, in case they ever face trial.
Human rights activists claim Uzbekistan regularly uses Skype calls and other private information in court, to push a guilty verdict. The country has been declared “abysmal” by the Human Rights Watch. Kazakhstan is in a similar spot, human rights claim there is lack of free speech and torture for activists and journalists speaking out against the government or religion.
This segregation of speech is notable in various Asian countries, but Central Asia and Middle Eastern countries tend to be more brutal in punishment and more conniving in their uses of information, in order to smear or hurt the citizen.
The U.S. has not responded for comment on its companies selling software tools, which are then used to damage citizens in affected areas. Unlike the European Union, the U.S. offers more freedom to companies to sell to whoever they want, just like the U.S. government selling weapons to countries with tyrannical regimes.