Chinese technology company helps track the location of over 33 million Myanmar internet users in real-time

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A Chinese technology company, Geedge Networks, is enabling Myanmar’s military junta to track the online activities and real-time locations of 33.4 million internet users, according to a report released on 09 September by Justice For Myanmar.

The statement is as follows.

A new report published today exposes the significant collaboration between the illegal Myanmar military junta and Geedge Networks in implementing a commercial version of China’s “Great Firewall”, giving the junta unprecedented capabilities to track down, arrest, torture and kill civilians.

Geedge Networks is a Chinese company with links to the Chinese government. Justice For Myanmar’s report, Silk Road of Surveillance: The role of China’s Geedge Networks and Myanmar telecommunications operators in the junta’s digital terror campaign also exposes 13 telecommunications companies in Myanmar that are integral to the continued functioning of Geedge’s sophisticated surveillance and censorship technology on behalf of the junta.