[timguoqk]

A friend of mine has a startup in China. He told me a year ago that the law already required his company to talk with government officials every month. They also needed to create a backdoor API according to a well-written specification for the government to access all the information in the database.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

well-written specification

That may very well be the defining difference between the Chinese and Western-governments.

[astrostl]

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa

[enraged_camel]

I think "selectively enforced" is a better way to put it.

[slowmovintarget]

No, Frank Zappa had it best. Your words may be more accurate but his words are better.

[ekianjo]

The point he was making was right. It's not randomly enforced at all, it's enforced only when it pleases the government.

[dasil003]

But the government is not a single actor with agency, from the outside it might as well be random. +1 Zappa.

[jackcosgrove]

Salutary neglect is as old as the colonies, boy.

[forumuid]

Lawful interception( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception) : "Almost all countries have LI capability requirements and have implemented them using global LI requirements and standards developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)"

[jlgaddis]

Lawful intercept does not provide encryption keys. The two are much different.

[forumuid]

just for the "well-written specification" by timguoqk ,the Lawful interception alse include," If the data are not obtained in real-time, the activity is referred to as access to retained data (RD)", by the way,according the link cited by others(http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/27/10670346/china-passes-law...),“the new law does not require that companies operating in China hand over encryption keys” why all the guys just believe what they want to believe?