Government cyber-surveillance is the norm in China — and it’s popular
When they met most recently, President Obama extracted from his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a solemn pledge to rein in Chinese surveillance and hacking of U.S. government agencies, companies and individuals. The backsliding seems to have begun almost immediately , with new reports of attacks by Chinese hackers in the United States. This conflict is not only a matter of competing national interests. At its heart are radically opposed conceptions of personal privacy and the legality of government monitoring.
Within China, government monitoring of private communication is not only common, but it is also explicit, institutionalized and generally quite popular. How much so?… Seguir leyendo »