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China CEO Exposes CCP's Surveillance
on Individuals Via Mobile Phones
Michael Anderson
Sound
of Hope Radio
Monday February 4, 2008
During the World Economic Forum held in Davos last week, the
CEO of China Mobile Communications Corporation, Wang Jianzhou,
unexpectedly exposed the company's role in helping the Chinese
Communist regime to spy on its clients.
Wang revealed the company has provided service for the regime
to monitor and spy on private details of communication through
500 million mobile phones.
According to AFP reports, China Mobile currently retains 300
million customers, and is growing by sixty-thousand customers
per month, as the world's largest mobile phone corporation.
Wang Jianzhou said the company is able to track who the client
is, and the exact location of the user. What were once personal
details such as name and location of its clients are now enabling
the company to take advantage of this information for use in marketing,
advertisement, and services.
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As for the issues surrounding privacy, Wang said, "We can
track the whereabouts of an individual, but the information does
not leak out, as only the Public Security bureau can access the
information when they request for it."
The company is able to track the movement of the mobile phone
user, because calls are relayed to the nearest antenna. American
Congressman Edward Markey found this news startling. He expressed
the information has sent a chilling message to telecommunications
experts at the World Economic Forum, that the capabilities of
mobile phones could be put to such misuse, and its users monitored
and spied on.
Congressman Markey, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications
& the Internet, compared the situation with the management
and use of such private information in America. He said whenever
a government official needs access to mobile phone records of
a particular individual, permission from court would have to be
obtained. He told reporters from AFP that he was outraged and
very suspicious of the relationship between this company and the
Chinese government.
Johnathan Zittrain, Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation
at Oxford University, explained that the CCTV in China is a closed
television network working for the government, and that it is
futile for outsiders to complain about the way in which information
is controlled. However, the mobile phone big-brother system is
funded by consumers themselves, and such misuse by public office
is inconceivable.
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