Chinese technology capable of mass surveillance 'installed' by Myanmar internet company funded by UK — Finance Uncovered 5/22/25, 11:56 AM security team to remotely monitor web traffic not just at Frontiir’s Myanmar Net, but all telecommunications companies and ISPs in Myanmar. “The military now has the ability to look into network activities live. They don’t even need to be there physically, they have their own monitoring office,” said Wai Phyo Myint, Asia Pacific Policy Analyst from respected digital rights campaign group, Access Now. She called on investors to take a closer look at ISPs like Frontiir, if they have “fully complied with military directives,” including “compliance with data requests, and the interception of communication lines and blocking thousands of websites and apps”. “We strongly urge investors and international governments to scrutinise these investments and consider imposing sanctions on companies whose operations directly or indirectly benefit the military and to stop technology transfer to those companies,” she said. UK foreign office minister, Stephen Doughty voiced concerns in 2020 about BII and Frontiir ‘Urgent investigation’ Concerns about Frontiir’s compliance with the Myanmar government’s demands to censor the internet were voiced in 2020, when FU and MN reported[5] that it was blocking access to thousands of websites on the Myanmar government’s orders. The UK’s development fund, then known as CDC Group, pledged an urgent investigation after questions were raised in the UK parliament about Frontiir’s censorship of the internet in June of that year. But rather than divest its $20 million stake, CDC invested a further $3 million the following https://www.financeuncovered.org/stories/british-norwegian-and-danis…litary-run-myanmar-which-hosts-notorious-chinese-surveillance-system Page 5 of 12