Understandably, corporations are not always keen to publicize such a
relationship. Motorola, for example, supplies China's traffic police with
wireless communication devices. Journalists reported that company
representatives at Security China 2000 "refused to answer questions about
the firm's involvement in the Golden Shield project..." Orin Li of Compaq
China was equally evasive, claiming: "We are not the only company;
everybody's doing it. Go and ask Sun!" (49)
Sun Microsystems is indeed involved in transferring high-tech expertise to
the Chinese security apparatus. Working with Changchun's Hongda Group,
market leaders in fingerprint recognition technology, Sun Microsystems
developed a computer network linking all 33 provincial level police
bureaus, forming one layer of the Golden Shield, allowing the PSB instant
comparison of fingerprints with a nationwide database.
http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/globalization/goldenShieldEng.html
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