U.S.-China Surveillance

In the seemingly never-ending saga of China’s resistance to the now global standard for wireless encryption, 802.11i, the Chinese firm Nufront has presented a new standard for wireless encryption at an annual IEEE conference being held in Orlando, Florida. According to the China Daily:
On the heels of the failure in the tussle between its Wireless [...]

Google yesterday announced that it would takes steps to increase user privacy by altering its search logs after a period of 18-24 months. Google says that it will erase a portion of the IP address associated with an individual search and alter the associated cookie data in an as of yet unspecified way. Though [...]

The PRC company China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc. (CSST), recently announced that net profits were up 215% year-on-year with annual revenues up 227%. According to the announcement (partially viewable at China Knowledge without subscription), new regulations and initiatives by the government have been the primary driver of growth. [...]

It’s been several days now since the blockbuster revelations coming from the U.S. Justice Department Inspector General’s report, A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of National Security Letters. I thought I would share some of the most interesting postings I’ve seen about the report and its implications. The JURIST has an excellent [...]

From the AP story:
Lin Kang, a National People’s Congress deputy from the second artillery corps, said the Internet has made the exchanges of military information easier, as many Web portals have set up special military columns and some military experts have opened blogs.
“Some fanciers pour out military information they know when chatting, emailing and posting [...]

From the report, issued by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State:
The law states that the “freedom and privacy of correspondence of citizens are protected by law”; however, the authorities often did not respect the privacy of citizens in practice. Although the law requires warrants before law enforcement officials can [...]

Here are two paragraphs from the report relevant to surveillance issues:
III. On Civil and Political Rights
In recent years, American citizens have suffered increasing civil rights infringements.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. government has put average Americans [...]

From the InformationWeek article, a man whose personal collection of pornography was discovered by FBIs in the process of a criminal investigation is suing Microsoft for failing to protect his privacy:
Crooker says he had set Internet Explorer to delete his Internet history every five days. “Any day beyond those parameters is supposed to be permanently [...]

Looks like state resistance is having at least some effect.