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French companies and your liberty

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French Firm Secretly Worked on Junta Internet System

Paris-based international telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent has
admitted it has been secretly helping the Burmese junta build a
telecommunications infrastructure that allows it to monitor Internet
traffic, according to a French news magazine report.
The firm confirmed its links—which contravene European Union sanctions
rules—this week after news reports of its activities were disclosed on the
French television news channel Canal Plus and in the French magazine Les
Inrockuptibles.

The magazine alleged that Alcatel-Lucent had built a system which enables
junta snoops to monitor private email traffic.

Multi-billion dollar Alcatel-Lucent said it had developed a
telecommunications system to "help the economic and cultural development
of Burma" which would help "contribute toward democratic development."

The firm's involvement in Burma dates from 2006.

The French firm carried out its Burma contract via its Chinese subsidiary
Shanghai Bell Alcatel Business Systems, according to the French news
reports this week.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18132

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