Posted on 12/21/2020 6:48:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A Zoom executive worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users located outside of China and ensure the U.S. video-call giant retained market access in the country, according to recently unsealed court documents filed by U.S. federal prosecutors.
The documents detailed internal communications between Zoom employees, which showed that Chinese security authorities made numerous requests to the company for data on users and meetings that discussed political and religious topics Beijing deemed unacceptable. Zoom complied with most of these requests, at times involving users outside of China.
The revelations highlight how users outside of China’s shores are increasingly being caught in the crosshairs as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) steps up its demands on companies like Zoom to surveil and censor users both at home and abroad. Zoom is a San Jose-based company, whose software is developed in China.
The claims arose in a prosecution announced on Dec. 18 against Jin Xinjiang, also known as Julien, a China-based Zoom executive. Jin was charged over his role in disrupting a series of meetings this year commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre—an event deemed taboo by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Jin worked as Zoom’s main liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence officials. Prosecutors allege Jin was directed by the CCP to shut down at least four Zoom meetings about the Tiananmen Square Massacre, most of which were hosted by Chinese dissidents based in the United States.
At the time, the company attracted widespread criticism after it suspended the accounts of a group of U.S.- and Hong Kong-based Chinese activists who hosted meetings commemorating the anniversary. The company said at the time that it took action because participating in such events was considered “illegal in China.”
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It's Chinese software, made to eavesdrop on the business meetings of foreign companies. Their servers and most of their developers are in China.
When the CCP says "jump", they say "how high?"
My employer doesn’t permit us to message coworkers via Skype anymore. We now have to text via Zoom.
Hello China. How’s the weather today?
Dongsheng depicted the ease by which Communist Chinese operatives w/ hidden agendas conscripted
"prominent Americans" and institutions ....... to work against the interests of their own country.
The professor related his own triumphs as a CCP operative in recruiting new and useful American “friends.”
America’s blue bloods fell easily to China’s leveraging of insatiable Western appetites for power, influence, and money.
NOTE He is Vice Dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University (the school for children of the party elite).
Why is Zoom in the USA?
I just hate zoom meetings. I dreed them and regret having to participate.
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