[WSIS CS-Plenary] Chinese equipment for WSIS/Tunisia

[Enrique A. Chaparro]

One more (brand new) reference to add to Robert's list:

QUOTE
China to Target Mobile Phone Messaging

Fri Jul 2, 4:53 PM ET

By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer

SHANGHAI,  China -  Chinese authorities  plan to  use new  technology to
improve surveillance of mobile phone  messages amid efforts to intensify
policing of private communications, reports said Friday.

The official Xinhua News Agency said  the campaign was aimed at cleaning
up  "pornographic,  obscene and  fraudulent"  phone  messages that  have
"infiltrated short messaging content."

According  to  the  Paris-based  group Reporters  Without  Borders,  the
campaign also aims to widen surveillance of political dissent.

Beijing already  screens e-mail,  censors Internet chatrooms  and blocks
access  to foreign  Web  sites considered  subversive. But mobile  phone
messaging  --known  as  short-message  service,  or  SMS--  is  a  newer
technology, and the government has  struggled to develop ways to control
it.

Reporters  Without Borders  issued a  statement protesting  news that  a
Chinese company, Venus Info Tech Ltd., was authorized by Beijing to sell
a "realtime surveillance system" for SMS messages.
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You can read the full text at:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&u=/ap/20040702/ap_on_re_as/china_mobile_phone_surveillance_3

Saludos desde el Lejano Sur,

Enrique


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