When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud. That’s because of a change to how the company handles the cryptographic keys needed to unlock an iCloud account. Until now, such keys have always been stored in the United States, meaning that any government or law enforcement authority seeking access to a Chinese iCloud account needed to go through the U.S. legal system. Now, according to Apple, for the first time the company will store the keys for Chinese iCloud accounts in China itself. That means Chinese authorities will no longer have to use the U.S. courts to seek information on iCloud users and can instead use their own legal system to ask Apple to hand over iCloud data for Chinese users, legal experts said. Human rights activists say they fear the authorities could use … [Read more...] about Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
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DPM reaffirmed human rights protection policy
The Hanoitimes - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has reaffirmed the State and Party's consistent policy of protecting and promoting human rights to better ensure the people's civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. By Tuan Minh … [Read more...] about DPM reaffirmed human rights protection policy
Guarantee of human rights in Viet Nam and current problems
Guarantee of human rights in Viet Nam, first and foremost, is prompted by objectives of revolution and nature of the social regime chosen by Viet Nam. That is why, even in hash circumstance of years of war, particularly when the country was reunified and in development stages, the Vietnamese State has striven to better guarantee human rights to everybody while paying special attention to vulnerable groups in society. Guarantee of human rights in Viet Nam Right in its first Platform, the Communist Party of Viet Nam identified the noble objective of the revolution was to bring about freedom and happiness to the Vietnamese people. It is the highest connotation of human rights. The task of struggle for democracy (including human rights) is put on a par with the task of struggle for national liberation. Besides two big conventions namely the Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights and the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the following 7 conventions are considered by the … [Read more...] about Guarantee of human rights in Viet Nam and current problems
Viet Nam supports over 80 pct of human rights recommendations
Viet Nam has supported 80,17 percent of the totally 227 recommendations it received during the 18th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group in February, which vividly demonstrated the country's serious forwardness, openness and determination in promotion and protection of human rights. Following is the full text presented by Ambassador Nguyen Trung Thanh, head of the Vietnamese delegation in Geneva, at the Adoption Session of the UPR Working Group Report on Viet Nam on June 20. "Mr. President, "It is a great pleasure for me to present our report and attend this second dialogue on the promotion and protection of human rights within the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Viet Nam. I most warmly welcome the broad participation of representatives from countries, international organisations, NGOs and other stakeholders in the discussion today. I look forward to hearing cooperative, constructive, and responsible contributions to our UPR process in … [Read more...] about Viet Nam supports over 80 pct of human rights recommendations
China again tells Google to obey the law
China on Tuesday again warned Google not to stop filtering its web search engine results, as speculation mounted about the company's plans following its threat to leave over censorship and cyberattacks. The US Internet giant has said it could abandon its Chinese-language search engine and possibly pull out of China altogether after the hack attacks. It also says it no longer wants to bow to the Chinese government's web censors. "We have all along maintained a policy of opening-up and welcome foreign investments in China. But the prerequisite is they should respect and abide by Chinese laws," commerce ministry spokesman Yao Jian told reporters. "We hope Google will abide by the law, no matter whether it continues to do business in China or makes other choices." Yao said if Google were to decide to shut down its businesses registered in Beijing, it would have to notify the commerce ministry -- and so far, no such notice had been received. The spokesman also said Beijing was "opposed to … [Read more...] about China again tells Google to obey the law