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ZunZuneo denounced before UN
commission
GENEVA.— Anayansi Rodríguez, Cuba’s permanent
representative to UN offices in this city,
emphasized May 12 that the ZunZuneo program created
by the United States, to incite subversion in Cuba,
violates the agreements adopted at the Information
Society World Summit.
Participating in the 2014 Science and Technology for
Development Commission, Rodríguez explained the true
purposes of this mobile phone network which was.
“To
increase the number of users to later introduce
political content and promote a call for massive
demonstrations and thus inciting internal
subversion, destabilization and the development of a
political crisis.”
The
operation functioned from 2009 through 2012,
violating Cuban and U.S. laws, including the
CAN-SPAM Act, approved by Congress in 2003, which
prohibits the sending of unsolicited text messages.
“These acts violate, additionally, the spirit of
commitment adopted on line C5 during the Information
Society World Summit, related to confidence and
security in the use of information and
communications technology,” she said during the
Commission meeting.
Referring to the gathering of personal data for
political reasons, “The subscribers [to Zunzuneo]
never knew that the service was created by the
United States government, or that their private
information was being compiled.”
Cuba
again denounced the use of new technology for the
purpose of destabilization, before this UN body, and
insisted that the U.S. government end its illegal,
subversive undercover operations. (PL)
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