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Posted by timothy (43% noise) View
maggeth writes “Early reports on the AP (via Yahoo) indicate that China will begin monitoring and censoring SMS communications in real time. China’s ‘great firewall’ is infamous, but the move to censoring SMS has been slow due to technological roadblocks. Algorithms are used to identify key words and combinations of words that might be associated with ‘political rumors and “reactionary remarks,”’ and the system automatically notifies local police. Something to think about on your Fourth of July weekend!” Reader ackthpt adds links to coverage at the BBC and The Register, asking “What next, a massive government database system to track every message and contacts between people?”
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Big Brother Syndrome in Disguise Getting Worse - by ravenspear (Score: 3, Insightful) Thread
This story provides an intriguing corollary to what is happening in the US. It’s a sober reminder of what the end result can be when Big Brother gets too much power over technological lines of communication and the ordinary lives of citizens.
I’m sad to say that I have noticed a disturbing gravitation towards this kind of draconian system by our government who has somehow convinced the majority of the populace that they should be granted whatever monitoring rights they want because we need them to protect us from terrorists. Personally, I could give jack sh*t about terrorists on a minute by minute basis throughout most of my day. I feel much safer keeping certain parts of my life private and away from the Washington watchdogs.
The reality of the situation is that if we willingly give up all rights to privacy something like this type of system is not going to be far away, though few see it.
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one system to monitor them all? - by ksp0704 (Score: 2, Insightful) Thread
“What next, a massive government database system to track every message and contacts between people?”
Like this, or maybe this, or this
I don’t know if the Chinese have a system like this yet, but we already have Echelon, so were set.
(For those of you to lazy to read all the articles, Echelon is a global communications spy network run by the NSA (with cooperation, in the form of listening posts, from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. It gives them the capability to listen to and monitor any broadcast transmission on the planet.)
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If there ever was a people needing liberating… - by Capt'n Hector (Score: 3, Insightful) Thread
… it’s the Chinese. Their government just serves as a reminder of how far we in America have yet to fall. Even though our rights have been eroded significantly, we’ll always have China to remind us that the good old USA still remains the land of the free.
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Re:Meet the NSA - by maelstrom (Score: 3, Insightful) Thread
The NSA is prevented from spying in America or on American citizens. This is quite different than the Chinese government.
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Re:nothing new - by FlipmodePlaya (Score: 3, Insightful) Thread
I’m tired (not almost) of our government being needlessly criticized and underapreciated. Something you say in a conversation here isn’t likely to get you arrested. This post contains the phrase ‘I will kill president Bush tomorrow at 6:35:22PM EST’, yet I will not be searched out and detained. This isn’t to say I want some company or government body having records of my private discussions, but it’s far from this Chinese policy of notifying the police, eh?
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