President Obama may be quite cozy with tech — what with his predilection for the iPad and those town hall meetings on Facebook — but he's well aware of its dark side, too. Today he announced that the US will freeze assets and cancel the American visas of Iranian and Syrian agencies tracking dissidents and pro-democracy groups via satellite, computer and phone networks. Among the entities getting the blacklist treatment are the Syrian cellphone company Syriatel, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian internet provider Datak Telecom.
2DayBlog.com, Obama cracks down on Iran and Syria's surveillance of dissidents
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