Author: Fast Technology
Published: 2020-12-29
Recently, CCTV exposed the black industry chain for eavesdropping. Manufacturers of related equipment disguised these devices as power banks by the producers, which could be remotely located, tracked, recorded, etc. without the user’s knowledge, suspected of violating citizens Personal information.
In fact, in August this year, CCTV reported that a security company in Beijing was wiretapped because of commercial secrets, and the company failed to bid and suffered heavy losses. The bugs turned out to be our common GPS locators.
In a security company in Beijing, the reporter saw such a small black box. The staff told reporters that the company's meeting to discuss marketing plans is highly confidential, but no one thought that this small black box was hidden under the seat. Due to the leakage of business secrets, the company failed to bid and suffered a loss of tens of millions. This kind of small black box, called GPS locator, is widely used in automobile anti-theft and enterprise operation vehicle management.
The reporter installed the APP on the mobile phone according to the instruction manual, opened the APP, and he could observe the vehicle's trajectory in real time. The next thing to try is remote monitoring. The two reporters agreed that one would stay in the car with the locator, and the other reporter would return to the office to listen. It turns out that no matter whether the eavesdropped's voice is loud or small, the monitored voice is as clear as calling the other party.
In addition, in the APP interface, there is a "remote recording" button. After activation, the conversation is saved in the phone.
In other words, as long as such a GPS locator is placed next to the eavesdropped, it is equivalent to putting a mobile phone on hold. All sounds will be transmitted to the eavesdropper's mobile phone, and even recorded, but the eavesdropper is completely unaware of what happened.
GPS locators are widely used in the theft prevention of private cars and enterprise vehicle management. However, when the GPS locator is designed to be small, easy to conceal, and capable of remote listening, it makes the product tasteless. Moreover, some manufacturers and sales merchants are also taking advantage of the blind spots of supervision to more or less expressly imply their hidden functions in some electronic product sales promotion advertisements.
At present, products such as GPS trackers have not been included in the national compulsory product certification catalog. However, the addition of microphone radio and other functions on this basis has no relevant management regulations, forming a blind spot for supervision. And manufacturers and sales merchants are also using this blind spot of supervision, in the sales promotion advertisements of such products, more or less expressly implying its hidden function.
Regarding the above behavior, some experts bluntly stated that the protection of personal information should be intercepted from the source of production. The Regulations on Prohibiting the Illegal Production and Sale of Special Equipment for Eavesdropping and Photographing and "Pseudo Base Station" Equipment implemented in 2015 explicitly prohibit natural persons, legal persons and others Organize illegal production, sale, and use of special equipment for wiretapping and photographing.
Article 57 of my country’s Supreme People’s Court Provisions on Several Issues Concerning Evidence in Administrative Litigation also clearly stipulates that materials obtained through wiretapping cannot be used as the basis for a verdict, and the perpetrator is likely to bear related legal liabilities. In this regard, experts pointed out that with the development of science and technology, laws should be followed up at the same time to regulate all kinds of illegal acts carried out by using new technology.