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Another attempt to crack the Chinese market - we look at the industry | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
chatter surrounding Facebook's latest effort. And it was designed | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
to protect by the sea but a fuse smartphone Aksana been not | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
delivering on the Polar function. -- smartphone apps have not been | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
delivering. Welcome to Asia Business Report live | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
from Singapore with me, Marico or it. China's 1.4 billion population | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
makes it an attractive market for many businesses including Facebook | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
-- Mariko Oi. Their there are reports that Facebook is developing | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
software that would help to avoid sharing topics if the government | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
would request it. This occurs around the world but it would be the first | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
time where Facebook in essence will be handing over that control to a | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
state. Our technology reporter has more. We all know that Facebook | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
wants to keep growing and needs to keep growing beyond its 1.8 billion | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
users that it now has, and one huge potential market for them is of | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
course China, but China has strict rules about what you can say on the | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
Internet, topics you can do is -- discuss and debate and Facebook have | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
in looking at how to accommodate those stipulations of breaking into | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
China. Now, this story, which appeared in the New York Times, from | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
Mike Eisenach, quoth Facebook employees, unnamed former employees, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
saying there was discontent about creating this tool. Facebook e-mail | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
me and said they are looking at many options in China but it would not | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
confirm or deny that their software, that would allow the Chinese state | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
or a third party in country to censor content, Facebook wouldn't | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
confirm or deny that it exists but it is certainly a huge talking point | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
among people who want open and free Internet. In other news: making | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
headlines, Japanese carmaker Toyota is recalling the minivans to fix an | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
issue that might arise with the sliding doors. The recall affects | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
more than 700,000 vehicles in the United States and 4000 units in | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
South Korea and Taiwan. German airline Lufthansa has lost a | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
last-minute court to hold a planned pilot strike that will cancel 900 | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
flights on Wednesday. The industry action will affect around 100,000 | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
passengers. The strike is part of a long-running pay dispute at | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Lufthansa. Now, do you know who has your | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
number? Some apps aimed at protecting the privacy of users | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
appear to be doing the opposite. The apps let people know who is calling | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
them when an unknown number of peers on their phone. But they also helped | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
themselves to date from people's contact books. From Hong Kong, we | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
explain why that is causing people to lose sleep over their privacy. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Don't you hate getting calls from people you don't know? Well, there | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
are several apps that can help identify who is calling, or block | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
calls from numbers you don't like, apps like True Caller and see and | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
security have millions of users, but there it is a catch because these | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
apps have huge databases of phone numbers, but they come from a range | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
of sources, including from users' content lists, which means if you | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
download the app will of your friends might end up in a publicly | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
searchable database whether they like it or not. Once they are in the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
system people can find out their names by looking at their phone | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
numbers. Investigative even found the name of Hong Kong's chief | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
executive in the database as database as well as other top | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
politicians. CM securities says it is stopping the lookup function | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
while it addresses privacy concessions. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
As mentioned, the newsagency broke the story, and I spoke with the | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
founder of the company to ask how he came to find out this discrepancy. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
Personal experience, a woman told one of our FatWire reporters last | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
month, she used her mobile phone to call a taxi one day in Hong Kong and | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
when she got in the taxi the driver can call her name and even, scarily, | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
he can identify which company he works for, so she tried to find out | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
and asked the taxi driver how he could possibly do that and the taxi | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
driver said he had downloaded call ID CM security on his mobile, so | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
whoever he calls he can identify who that person is or even some personal | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
data included in the app's database so investigative reporters looked | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
into this app, CM Security, and we found out later that other apps, | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
like Sync.me and True Caller have a similar function. That is quite | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
frightening. How many people are affected by this? It is difficult to | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
say but, according to data released by the free apps, it is over 3 | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
billion database included in the cloud server, so it's a very huge | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
database and of course every country -- and across every country in the | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
world. So, what can people do to protect themselves? True Caller and | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Sync.me provides means on their website for anyone to use to request | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
to remove their personal data from the server. But CM Security does not | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
provide this means until, and we have revealed this story, they | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
released three separate press release after the story and the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
latest one just released yesterday, they promised to provide a means for | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
anyone to request to remove their data from the database. So far, | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
until this morning, we still cannot see this means available on the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
website. US President-elect Donald Trump may have dealt the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Trans-Pacific Partnership a death blow, announcing he would withdraw | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
from the 12 nation trade pact on his first day in office. Japan's Prime | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Minister Shinzo Abe says that TPP would be meaningless without the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
United States. The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says trade and | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
open regionalism in the Asia-Pacific is key to benefiting our peoples, so | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
why is there such strong opposition to the deal in the US? Earlier, I | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
put that question to a member of non-profit organisation Public | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Citizen. Well, Trump basically, has simply buried the zombie TPP. It was | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
already dead, because it was impossible to build a majority to it | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
in the US Congress for the ten months since it was officially | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
signed. And the reason why is largely because the deal was | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
negotiated behind closed doors for six years with over 500 US corporate | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
advisers, but the public and Congress shut out, and as a result | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
instead of focusing on free trade it was junked up with a lot of | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
protectionist rubbish, extensions of monopoly patents that would raise | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
medicine prices, writes for multinational corporations to sue | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
governments and a man taxpayer compensation for laws they didn't | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
like, deregulation of finance. If it had really been a trade deal it | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
would not have run into this trouble. But isn't it fair to say | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
that American voters were not too keen on NAFTA and other free trade | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
deals as well, and does it mean America is ditching this free trade | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
and actually giving China a bit of the benefit. Well, first of all, | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
with respect to free trade, Ita dinghy and have had the opportunity | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
to see a real free trade agreement since NAFTA, because the model of US | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
free trade agreements have basically, we have seen the | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
hijacking and the capture of trade negotiation by these privileged | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
corporate advisers and so as a result agreements since NAFTA have | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
had less to do with trade and more about special privileges to make it | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
easier for jobs to be made offshore, for foreign investors to collect | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
taxpayer compensation for policies they don't like. As far as China, | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
you know, the hype about the demise of the TPP helping China echoes the | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
Obama administration's own increasingly desperate foreign | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
policy claims when they couldn't sell the agreement on the merits and | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
they started this sort of scaremongering, the end of US | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
leadership, China will take advantage, but the reality is the US | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
has duty-free trade under IS is king agreements with the six TPP | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
countries which account for 80% of the entire block's GDP and has very | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
low tariffs already with the other partners because we are on the World | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Trade Organisation. Meanwhile, as far as leadership in the region, the | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
US 7th Fleet, which obviously is the defence for Japan, for Vietnam's | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
etc, these are the China, remains stationed, and as we saw with a | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
minister are they that is what he wanted to talk to Donald Trump | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
about, not the TPP -- vis a vis., let's look at | :10:12. | :10:12. | |
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