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June 04, 2006
Yah-boo!
Shi Tao (Chinese journalist)
Image source: www.irrepressible.info
Wired Magazine reports this week that a study has revealed about a third of big companies in the United States and the UK hire employees to read and analyse outbound e-mail to "guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk". To protect your privacy, therefore, it is probably wise to send any risque jokes, love notes to your spouse, or any other details relating to your personal life via your private email account. Unless of course, you happen to have a Yahoo account. In China this can be extremely detrimental to one's personal liberty; like 10 years in gaol, for example, in the case of journalist Shi Tao if you happen to email material in support of the pro-democracy movement. This might have been avoided had Yahoo shown themselves to have more of a backbone and not surrendered information to the Chinese authorities. If this sort of thing worries you, please consider pledging your support for Shi Tao at www.irrepressible.info.
Posted by jeremy at June 4, 2006 06:08 PM
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