Myanmar, foreign telecommunications companies succumb to the blackmail of the military on user data

BANGKOK. In Myanmar, reliable sources recently revealed that the day before the military coup Aung San Suu Kyi was already prepared for the possibility of her arrest. When he saw military vehicles pull up under his home in Naypyidaw at dawn on February 1, the first thing he did was to hammer down his cell phone, including several sim cards used in his capacity as the de facto leader of the government.