Federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls
A security executive of Zoom Xinjiang Jin worked with the Chinese government to terminate Americans’ accounts and disrupt video calls about the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, Justice Department prosecutors said Friday.
Zoom is California-based company and worth more than $100 billion
Prosecutors said that Jin worked as Zoom’s primary liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence services, sharing user information and terminating video calls at the Chinese government’s request. Also, he monitored Zoom’s video system for discussions of political and religious topics deemed unacceptable by China’s ruling Communist Party, the complaint states, and he gave government officials the names, email addresses and other sensitive information of users, even those outside China.
Source: Washington Post #Dec18
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-helped-china-surveillance/
#Zoom #InternetCensorship #CCP #ChinaPoverty
A security executive of Zoom Xinjiang Jin worked with the Chinese government to terminate Americans’ accounts and disrupt video calls about the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, Justice Department prosecutors said Friday.
Zoom is California-based company and worth more than $100 billion
Prosecutors said that Jin worked as Zoom’s primary liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence services, sharing user information and terminating video calls at the Chinese government’s request. Also, he monitored Zoom’s video system for discussions of political and religious topics deemed unacceptable by China’s ruling Communist Party, the complaint states, and he gave government officials the names, email addresses and other sensitive information of users, even those outside China.
Source: Washington Post #Dec18
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-helped-china-surveillance/
#Zoom #InternetCensorship #CCP #ChinaPoverty
China ends poverty with help of towering debt and big handouts
China has declared an end to poverty, but that victory came with snowballing debts in the nation's poorest counties that were used to finance handouts and subsidies, raising doubts about the sustainability of the government's campaign.
Aggressive measures to eradicate poverty include relocating entire farming communities from poor, mountainous areas and disbursing monetary assistance. Also, some municipalities have also been buying agricultural products from poor areas at far above market prices in order to lift incomes.
China set the poverty line too low. The World Bank considers anyone who lives on less than $1.90 a day to be extremely poor. This translates to $693.50 a year -- about $80 above the Chinese threshold.
Source: Nikkei Asia #Dec18
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/China-ends-poverty-with-help-of-towering-debt-and-big-handouts
#ChinaPoverty #China #WorldBank
China has declared an end to poverty, but that victory came with snowballing debts in the nation's poorest counties that were used to finance handouts and subsidies, raising doubts about the sustainability of the government's campaign.
Aggressive measures to eradicate poverty include relocating entire farming communities from poor, mountainous areas and disbursing monetary assistance. Also, some municipalities have also been buying agricultural products from poor areas at far above market prices in order to lift incomes.
China set the poverty line too low. The World Bank considers anyone who lives on less than $1.90 a day to be extremely poor. This translates to $693.50 a year -- about $80 above the Chinese threshold.
Source: Nikkei Asia #Dec18
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/China-ends-poverty-with-help-of-towering-debt-and-big-handouts
#ChinaPoverty #China #WorldBank