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The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 6, 2023. /CFP
Ten years after the "Prism gate" incident, the U.S. has never slowed down its wiretapping, surveillance activities worldwide, but is even more unscrupulous, trying to put more of the world in the shadow of its hypocrisy on cyber security, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday.
The United States has not only run spying operations on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the leaders of its allies, such as Germany, France, South Korea, and Israel, but also further legalizes its behavior of eavesdropping on and stealing secrets from countries, spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a regular news briefing.
In 2008, the U.S. Congress approved Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the government to collect communications concerning foreign intelligence targets without a warrant. The act is set to expire at the end of the year, but the White House has claimed that extending the validity period of the act is the current administration's key priority, Wang added.
The spokesperson emphasized that over the past decade, the international community has more clearly seen that the United States, a self-proclaimed defender of democracy and freedom, is actually abusing its own technological advantages, stealing information from other countries, and infringing on the rights and freedoms of people across the world.
The so-called "Clean Network" program launched by the U.S. is just another version of the "Prism gate" and its real purpose is to maintain U.S.' cyber hegemony and create an unchecked surveillance empire, Wang noted.
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