China telecommunications

Leng Rongquan was the business partner and golfing buddy of the brother of a powerful, purged official.

China Unicom one of China’s largest state-run telecommunications firms has systems in place to listen in on phone calls and track the locations of its users. The findings were posted on Jan. 8 by a user nicknamed “Bystander Jia” to WooYun.org,—a website where security researchers report vulnerabilities and vendors give feedback.