December 30, 2005
China to monitor mobile phone payments in search for porn sites
Chinese police will monitor mobile phone payment platforms, focusing on larger transactions, as a key part of their efforts to close down pornographic websites, informs Interfax China.
"As everyone knows, pornographic photos and service providers set their prices fairly high. Therefore monitoring can be improved by specially targeting higher priced services," said Zhao Shiqiang, from the BPS's Public Information Network Security Supervision Bureau.
Telecom operators will likely conduct the monitoring of mobile phone payment platforms. Mobile phone payments services have become a popular way to pay for internet services because few people in China have credit cards.
In addition to monitoring mobile payments, Zhao said telecom carriers should investigate internet and mobile phone content providers, and also hire third party firms to investigate and monitor services.
This new initiative by police to monitor mobile payment platforms is part of a broader government crackdown on the dissemination of pornographic, gambling, and anti-government content over mobile phone and internet networks.
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