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Comment by timguoqk | Hacker News Reader

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salutary neglect is as old as the colonies, boy.

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)"

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

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?

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