China: Big Brother Keeping a Close Eye on Text Messages
A Bloomberg News article, via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:
China's government said Tuesday that it had stepped up the monitoring of short-text messages sent by the nation's 383 million cellphone users to prevent fraud, pornographers and other "unhealthy elements" from exploiting the technology.
The police found 107,000 illegal short messages and shut down 9,700 cell-phone accounts since the beginning of November, the vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, Wu Heping, said at a briefing here that was broadcast on the Internet.
Banking scams accounted for 44 percent of the messages, followed by advertisements for illegal lotteries, prostitution or pornography services, and illicit requests for financial information, according to Wu. The remaining 26 percent related to "other crimes," the ministry said, without elaborating.
posted by Fergie @ 12/06/2005 06:26:00 AM
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