China tightens rules on protection of state secrets

28 Apr 2010

An amendment to laws on guarding state secrets could force communication providers to cooperate with the country’s security apparatus over the leaking or distribution of state secrets. Telecom operators and internet service providers  will have to ‘detect, report and delete’ information about such secrets. This could force providers to copy the example of Yahoo.  The company famously supplied the Chinese government with the private details of journalist Shi Tao after he leaked sensitive documents in 2007. Tao was arrested.

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