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Relevant reporting: Hong Kong security law: Police handed power to do warrantless searches, freeze assets, intercept comms, control internet https://hongkongf
by hker 6y ago
Relevant reporting:
Hong Kong security law: Police handed power to do warrantless searches, freeze assets, intercept comms, control internet
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/06/breaking-hong-kong-security-law-police-handed-power-to-do-warrantless-searches-freeze-assets-intercept-comms-control-internet/ https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/06/breaking-hong-kong-securit...
Note that more details are just being released (and hence newer interpretation of the law, or at least part of it):
“On Monday night, the government gazetted the details of Article 43 of the controverisal legislation”.
- strogonoff 6y agoGrim. Is infrastructure capable of enforcing internet restrictions to any useful degree already in place?
- dmix 6y agoChina will probably keep it mostly kosher on the surface level. But no doubt will be wide open in the background for surveillance. Assuming it wasn't already mostly accessible to them. I'd be surprised if anything like the firewall happens. More likely to be quiet intimidation or disappearances of people posting stuff online.
- xwolfi 6y agoDon't forget, however, that for the exact same excuse, the NSA approached american companies who complied with voluntary backdoors for years, until someone betrayed and exiled to Russia. Not saying both are right, just that this is done from New Zealand to Finland, and it's not very easy to understand why we in Hong Kong are suddenly oppressed by that.
- patagurbon 6y agoBecause the possibility that you are disappeared for your online activities is likely much much higher in HK now than it has ever been in those other countries.
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