A Chinese central government spokeswoman on Wednesday slammed the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in the country’s Taiwan region over their violations of residents’ personal privacy and their rumors aimed at disrupting exchanges and cooperation across the Taiwan Strait.
Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, Zhang Han, spokeswoman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, referred to the Ministry of Public Security’s updated departmental rules on cybersecurity, which will take effect on Oct 1, to highlight the central government’s commitment to protecting residents’ information security.
“Recently, the Ministry of Public Security released the departmental rules, ‘Measures for the Supervision and Inspection of Cyberspace Security by Public Security Organs.’ These rules apply to the supervision and inspection conducted by public security organs on the fulfillment of data security obligations by network operators, data processors, and personal information processors, and regulate public security law enforcement operations. The enactment of the rules is conducive to supervising network operators, data processors, and personal information processors, strengthening the security protection of networks, data, and personal information, jointly preventing telecom and online fraud and other illegal and criminal activities, and safeguarding national security and public interests,” Zhang said.
Regarding the DPP authorities’ recent warnings against Taiwan residents’ trips to the mainland, Zhang pointed out that the DPP authorities are the very threat to the privacy and security of the travelers.
“The claims made by the DPP authorities are completely slander and disinformation, aiming to obscure the truth. The DPP authorities are the biggest culprits extending their ‘black hands’ into people’s lives. They have repeatedly hyped up the false narrative of ‘democracy versus authoritarianism,’ deliberately escalating cross-strait confrontation and obstructing exchanges and cooperation. On the island, The DPP authorities wantonly trample on democracy, undermine the rule of law, restrict freedom, and instigate ‘green terror.’ Recently, they have repeatedly demanded that Taiwan’s civil servants visiting relatives in the mainland provide names and phone numbers of their relatives and friends, and that Taiwan’s schools and students participating in exchanges in the mainland register on the website of the so-called mainland affairs council. With such blatant violations of the personal privacy of Taiwan residents, how can the DPP authorities have any qualification or decency to talk about ‘information security’?” Zhang said.
