Gov’t plans to install surveillance equipment

10 December 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Communications / Communications policy and administration / Government / Internet / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Interior
Chhay Sinarith / Internal Security Department / Ministry of Interiors / Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC)

The government is planning to install surveillance equipment on the networks of Cambodia’s mobile phone operators and Internet service providers (ISPs), a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday, vindicating concerns about inspections the ministry quietly conducted on telecommunications firms in October. … In October, officials from Lieutenant General Sinarith’s department visited the headquarters of mobile phone and Internet providers to examine their network equipment and look through their billing records and data logs. The meetings followed an October 7 letter in which Mao Chakrya, head of the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC), ordered 12 mobile phone operators and ISPs in the country to cooperate with investigators. …

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