US, top threat to global cybersecurity: Chinese spokesperson
It’s reported that in the last five years Microsoft had received 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year to gather vast amounts of data on American internet users and the US courts provided little by way of meaningful oversight, said Tom Burt, a Microsoft vice president, at a US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing on June 30. Wang remarked that the US has long been taking advantage of its advanced tech capacity to run invasive surveillance on people at home and abroad, steal various types of data and violate all kinds of privacy.
Wang stressed that from the Snowden incident a decade ago to the recent revelation of the US tapping senior officials of its allies using undersea cables, a huge pile of facts serve to prove that the US is the ‘empire of hackers’ and the master of theft of secrets.
“We call on the international community to jointly expose and reject US practices that endanger global cybersecurity and undermine global rules,” Wang said.
