In The Platform, part of Cisco’s blog network, the computer networking company’s general counsel Mark Chandler posted a response to a Wall Street Journal article that reported “Western companies including Cisco Systems Inc. are poised to help build an ambitious new surveillance project in China-a citywide network of as many as 500,000 cameras that officials say will prevent crime but that human-rights advocates warn could target political dissent.”
Chandler opened his response by stating that “as a matter of policy, Cisco has not and will not sell video surveillance cameras or video surveillance management software in its public infrastructure projects in China. We were offered an opportunity to supply those products in Chongqing and, contrary to the suggestion in the article, declined that opportunity.”
