Huawei, a telecommunications company that has applied for at least 22 patents for “legal” wiretapping, announced on Tuesday (March 30) a new patent for “legal” wiretapping, which has been analyzed by industry sources. The patent is to provide mass surveillance when requested by national security agencies. However, the news was removed from the Chinese media, but the incident has aroused public suspicion, many netizens believe that Huawei has the responsibility to explain the incident to the public.
According to Huawei, the new patent improves the effectiveness of listening, and can solve the problem of “listening departments” can not triage the data obtained from listening. As long as the phone number or social platform account of the target is known, the eavesdropping department can obtain the data of every speech they make, because when the public sends the information out, it has to pass through a “gateway” (i.e. gateway). “In the gateway found (to intercept) the reel, the reel information will be passed to the listening center.”
He continued that the advantage of the new patent is that the machine can be used for large-scale listening, because the past listening, “the police need to be authorized to listen to (specific) phone numbers, before you must have a person to look at the number for a long time, the user, the cost is very high, very low efficiency, now you can say that the larger scale (listening)”, more The national security department’s listening needs, and any intention to use this technology, the national department can buy patents from Huawei, Huawei to provide listening devices. However, it is the authorized department, not Huawei, that listens and receives the intercepted information.
Current affairs commentator Wu Zhisen pointed out in an online program that although foreign telecommunications companies will also provide wiretapping functions at the request of state security departments, but Western countries have strict procedures to regulate wiretapping, including the need for high-level departmental approval, and apply to the court, etc., once the violation is found, the consequences are serious, to a certain extent to protect the public from unauthorized wiretapping, but China’s wiretapping without checks and balances, the National People’s Congress will not be like other countries The National People’s Congress does not consider the reports submitted by the monitoring agencies, and the “powerful departments” are not required to apply to the court for wiretapping, and there is no independent statutory body to monitor the situation.
Although an engineer who worked at Huawei estimated that Huawei’s move was because the chip business was hit by the U.S. crackdown and needed to let the leaders of the relevant departments in China know that the company had this technology for sale, but Wu Zhisen said it was difficult to understand why Huawei did not fight itself, but it can be seen that these companies claim to be “private”, the claim is questionable. It is questionable, and can even be said to be misleading.
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