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Firm Romney Founded Is Tied to Chinese Surveillance
BEIJING As the Chinese government forges ahead on a multibillion-dollar effort to blanket the country with surveillance cameras, one American company stands to profit: Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney.
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In December, a Bain-run fund in which a Romney family blind trust has holdings purchased the video surveillance division of a Chinese company that claims to be the largest supplier to the governments Safe Cities program, a highly advanced monitoring system that allows the authorities to watch over university campuses, hospitals, mosques and movie theaters from centralized command posts.
The Bain-owned company, Uniview Technologies, produces what it calls infrared antiriot cameras and software that enable police officials in different jurisdictions to share images in real time through the Internet. Previous projects have included an emergency command center in Tibet that provides a solid foundation for the maintenance of social stability and the protection of peoples peaceful life, according to Univiews Web site.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/world/asia/bain-capital-tied-to-surveillance-push-in-china.html
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DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)This needs to get repeated.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)am sharing it everywhere!
msongs
(67,453 posts)point of obama campaign bringing this up?
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts). . . except that Obama isn't the founder of a firm that is selling the crap to China and Rmoney is. May not matter to you but it does to me.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)...unless, of course, I can make scads and scads of cash off of them, my friend!"
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)It's been privatized? I hand't heard.