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The Authorities of Beijing will use technologies of infiltration in the networks of mobile telephony, so that they check the written messages for "pornografic, misleading or obscene" content.
Organisations for the protection of human rights appreciate that in the foresight they will also enter anti-sensibles.
The system of filters has in deed the possibility of calling immediately the police.
China checks already the email, judging rooms of discussions in the Internet and it prevents the access in foreigner network places with content that are considered subversive.
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The Organisation of Journalists Without Borders published from Paris written statement of protest, because the Chinese ministry of Public Safety gave the authorisation in the company Venus Info Tech Ltd to sell system of "follow-up in real time" in companies of mobile telephony.
The system is using filters developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which recognize in the SMS words-key and combinations of words. Certain from this phrases, the organisation claims , can imply political annotation and "reagents comments".
Independently, the newspaper Beijing Daily Messenger reported that the bigger company of mobile telephony in China, the China Mobile, will begin judging the SMS in her network.
Last year, 260 millions Chinese users mobile sent in total 220 billions messages.
During last year's epidemic SARS, when still the Chinese authorities denied the existence of illness, certain citizens had been arrested with the category that they caused panic propagating rumours for the epidemic via SMS.
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Posted: 2004-07-02 16:24:44
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This is outrageous and scary knowing the usa is close behind with its "patriot act." No one has the right to intrude in my personal life!
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Posted: 2004-07-02 16:46:01
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Ridiculous that. I thought China were modernising, and becoming less totalitarian? Looks like I'm wrong!
Mind you, surely people could get round this 'filtering', by put ting sp aces or ch4nging cer tain l3tters for num8ers. It makes whatever's being read quite tricky but it would fool this software surely?
@kim - that rather crassly-named 'patriot act' you refer to sounds a bit 'big brother' - what's that all about? Granted, an increased need for security is needed, but, as you point out, nosing at everyone's private text messages is surely violating some human rights or something?
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Posted: 2004-07-02 17:21:39
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Weird! they are monitoring what u do? isnt that like... intruding privacies? cant even keep a stash of porn.
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Posted: 2004-07-02 17:37:21
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