Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi CSC: Torturers Become Thieves A year and a half after we launched BizCloud, Computer Sciences Corporation, perhaps in a bid to rehabilitate their reputation, did what so many other companies do when they want people to forget their dirty deeds — they offered a new product …
Khaled El-Masri
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi Khaled El-Masri The best-known of all of CSC’s rendition victims is an innocent man named Khaled El-Masri. Born In Kuwait to Lebanese parents, El-Masri grew up in Lebanon before immigrating to Germany During the Lebanese civil war. He eventually married a German woman, obtained German Citizenship, …
Road to Rendition
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi Road to Rendition Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States the George W. Bush Administration instituted a series of policies and actions that shocked the world’s conscience,violating both the law and any sense of human decency. He launched a global war against …
A Rotten Company
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi A Rotten Company By this time CSC had long since crossed over to the dark side, if you will, by signing many highly lucrative contracts with the US military and military-industrial complex corporations, including a $186 million office automation deal with the US Air Force — …
Rendition as a Service: Enter CSC
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi Rendition as a Service: Enter CSC While researching The Age of Nepotism I learned about the US extraordinary rendition program that the CIA was operating in the Balkans and around the world. Suspected terrorists and innocent men alike were being kidnapped off the streets of European …
The Age of Nepotism and Bombs over Belgrade
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi The Age of Nepotism & Bombs over Belgrade With so much turmoil in the world, it was admittedly a difficult task to remain focused solely on the business of BizCloud. We all felt like we had so much to say; we wanted to speak out against …
Occupy!
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi Occupy! With so much taxpayer money being spent on bailing out the very corporations who were causing so much suffering for so many people, there was inevitably a public backlash against the big banks and their rapacious ways. The sentiment behind what would soon be familiar …
The Balkans and Birth of BizCloud
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi The Balkans and Birth of BizCloud In August 2008 I left the United States for Belgrade, Serbia on a mission to hire graphic designers and developers for my new startup, BizCloud. The initial idea behind BizCloud was to provide an online directory of businesses to keep …
A Story to Tell
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi A Story to Tell This is the story of how injustices perpetrated against me by technology companies quite literally drove me to madness. But it’s also the story of something much bigger than just me. The crimes, misdeeds, and other unethical behavior that tech companies commit …
Foreword
Ethics In Tech & Lack Thereof Sleeping Under The Cell Tower By Vahid Razavi Foreword Vahid Razavi is a member of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, the nation’s first avowedly interracial, interfaith congregation. I serve as its Presiding Minister. It is in this capacity that I first heard of the abusive and scandalous behavior toward Vahid from …
