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PostSubject: Tracking bug on Chinese activist in New York   Tracking bug on Chinese activist in New York Icon_minitimeSat Jun 22, 2013 7:20 pm

Dissidents inside China have long been accustomed to a lack of privacy. Phone conversations are monitored, emails are read and public security agents trail human rights activists when they venture outside their homes.

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But according to officials at New York University, several electronic devices that were given to Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese legal advocate, soon after his arrival in the US last year were loaded with spyware designed to track his family's movements and their online activity.

Two of those devices, an iPhone and an iPad, were given to Chen by China Aid, a Texas-based Christian group that pushes for greater religious freedom in China.

China Aid president Bob Fu said that he was out of the country when Mr Chen arrived in New York so his wife, Heidi, handed over the equipment. The discovery of the tracking software came as a complete surprise, he said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/tracking-bug-on-activist-in-new-york-20130622-2op76.html#ixzz2WzS7lbgA
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