Guardian報導: 科網巨頭可能已暗中配合黨安法 港人資料疑被送中

Big technology companies may already be complying with secret Chinese requests for user information held in Hong Kong and ought to “come clean” about the vulnerability of the data they hold there, a senior US state department official has said.

科網巨頭可能已暗中配合黨安法

The allegation of possible secret cooperation between major companies and Hong Kong authorities follows the implementation of a sweeping and controversial new national security law that allows Hong Kong authorities to demand sensitive user data from companies if it is deemed to threaten national security.

While some tech and social media companies, like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, said in the immediate aftermath of the law being implemented in June that they would put a “pause” on complying with any Hong Kong data requests, interviews with activists, legal experts, and a current and former US government official have raised doubts about their ability to fend off such legal demands and their right to disclose if they have received them.

科網巨頭已表示會暫停配合港共要求
社運人士 法律專家 美國官員表示存疑

The state department official said: “There is a possibility that things are happening but because of the restrictions put on by the Hong Kong authorities, they [companies] would not be able to divulge this.”

可能有野正在發生 但佢地唔能夠公開

The official added that if the request was “detoured” into the mainland legal system it would fall into a “black hole”.

“The company would be told by mainland authorities ‘you will be breaking the [law] if you reveal the fact that I’m asking for this information,’” the official said.

公開就會比支共視為犯法

Facebook and Google did not respond to requests for comment.

FB Google對此無回應!!!!

Microsoft said: “As we would with any new legislation, we are reviewing the new law to understand its implications. In the past, we’ve typically received only a relatively small number of requests from Hong Kong authorities, but we are pausing our responses to these requests as we conduct our review.”

Microsoft declined to comment on the remarks by the state department official.

Microsoft耍下太極 之後都係對此無回應!!!!

For Hong Kong activists like Glacier Kwong, who is living outside Hong Kong at the moment but is a vocal pro-democracy advocate, the threat of having her information turned over to Beijing is reminiscent of the 2004 incident in which Yahoo complied with a Chinese request for identifying information about the journalist Shi Tao after he used a Yahoo account to send information about how China was restricting coverage of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre to a human rights forum in the US.

Yahoo篤灰有前科

Shi was arrested and spent nearly 10 years in prison as a result of Yahoo’s disclosure, an act that was later described by a US congressman as akin to corporate collaboration with Nazi Germany. Yahoo had also shared information about the dissident Wang Xiaoning, who had been posting his writings on Yahoo forums anonymously. The activist was sentenced to a decade in prison after he was identified. He was released in 2012 and Yahoo publicly apologised for the disclosures.

Kwong says it would create “huge problems” for her and fellow activists if their most “highly sensitive and intimate” data – collected over many years of using Facebook and Google – was handed to Beijing.

Activists like Kwong are not calling for the companies to abandon Hong Kong, but said all companies ought to minimise the data they collect or store, and end to end encrypt the data that gives even the companies limited access to the information.

全文:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/30/big-tech-firms-may-be-handing-hong-kong-user-data-to-china

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Another dissident, Yaxue Cao, who is based in Washington, said companies ought to remember the 2004 Yahoo case, and the reputational damage and lawsuit that Yahoo eventually had to settle with Chinese dissidents, as they navigate the new Hong Kong security law. But there was one major difference between then and now: neither Hong Kong nor China would likely now acknowledge in court, as China did in the Yahoo case, that it had obtained sensitive data from a major technology company.

“It will therefore be that much more important for the tech companies to be honest and to have integrity,” she said.

But one former US government official, who has discussed the issue with affected groups, said it would be problematic to rely on companies with a vested interest in expanding their business in China to essentially act as whistleblowers and reveal if they have been asked to turn over information.
[quote前美國官員表示 ]科網巨頭都係靠唔住 強國市場利益太大[/quote]

“Within companies [the issue] is pretty well understood but companies want to keep it quiet, they want to keep it hush-hush, they want to make their own decisions about what is best for their business,” the person, who asked not to be identified because of possible repercussions, said. “To have data that is from south-east Asia, regional data, or data from Europe or the US, in Hong Kong, at this point , is just nuts. Or, at least, if you have it and don’t have a plan in the next year to get it out … then you’re either naive or you just don’t care.”

公司內部都係避而不談 生意為先

香港人：比人偷資料有咩所謂，最重要有機打

英國《衞報》引述一名美國國務院高級官員指出，香港實施國安法後，Facebook、Google和微軟等科技巨企可能已秘密跟港府合作，將香港用戶資料交給當局，認為這些公司應招認他們儲存在香港的數據有多容易洩露。

美國國務院一名高級官員質疑，當這些公司接到港府的法律要求後，是否有能力不從，以及他們是否有權透露接到當局要求的消息。

該名官員說：「有可能這些事已在發生，但因為香港當局採取了限制，他們（涉事公司）無法洩露消息。」官員說如果當局的要求被「繞入」中國法律體制，就等同落入「黑洞」，「公司會被中國當局告知，『如果你揭露我要求索取這些資料，就是犯法』」

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最好唔好用啦（非曲
同黨鐵一樣
返工還好 私人野不了
Social network 又容易妨礙獨立思考

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咁搞鬼嘅 唔係verified account
睇科爐數先知係堅
但都係好少人睇

2004 incident in which Yahoo complied with a Chinese request for identifying information about the journalist Shi Tao after he used a Yahoo account...The activist was sentenced to a decade in prison after he was identified. He was released in 2012 and Yahoo publicly apologised for the disclosures.

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