US BLACKLISTS SANDVINE FOR CENSORSHIP, WEB MONITORING IN EGYPT

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The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine Inc., a computer networking company, for supplying technology to the government of Egypt that enabled web monitoring and censorship, going against US national security and foreign policy interests. Sandvine's deep-packet inspection technology was used for internet surveillance and censorship in Egypt, leading to its ban from acquiring US technology components.