Sources: Google bars NGOs from providing Titan Security keys or promoting the availability of any of its products to activists in Iran, Syria, Cuba, or N. Korea
Sources and a document show how Google bars nonprofits from telling activists in certain countries about their products. Tweets: @josephfcox and @josephfcox Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : To be clear, it is not Google's responsibility to ensure the digital security of certain communities in certain countries. But campaigners and legal experts still see Google not providing 2FA keys to certain countries as an over-compliance of export law https://motherboard.vice.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/uH16u7O8Uh Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : New: Google gives out its 2FA hardware tokens to activists/journalists. But it tells NGOs not to provide or promote them to people in Iran, Syria, Crimea etc, per sources + doc Shows how legally tricky operating with activism in some countries can be http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... http://twitter.com/...