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...infections. To ease concern, some police departments have been ordered to conduct twice-weekly sweeps of restrooms. Authorities have been flooded with so many phone calls from people convinced they are being taped that the government is holding "how-to" seminars on the de-bugging of homes and offices. Taipei-based Gi Ya Company claims more than 100,000 customers have purchased a device that is supposed to detect radio waves emitted by spy cams equipped with wireless communication capabilities. The $30 appliance, marketed to women for personal protection, comes fitted with a whistle, a make-up mirror...
...frizzy hair, thick eyeglasses, and shiny, polka-dotted shirts, Lawrence Lee bears a striking resemblance to Austin Powers in The Spy Who Shagged Me. He prefers to think of himself as "the guy behind James Bond, 007." His ramshackle office in a low-rent district of Taipei is lined floor to ceiling with spy gadgetry: neckties fitted with lenses, cameras disguised as Bibles, infrared goggles. If you are lucky, he will show you his small library of Japanese manuals with detailed instructions on how to secretly film your neighbor's underpants...
...company, Singa Takara Enterprises, struggled to turn a profit selling custom-made spook equipment to clients such as the Iranian secret police. Then, in December, one of Taiwan's tabloid magazines whipped up a scandal by distributing free copies of an X-rated video purported to be of former Taipei politician Chu Mei-feng as she entertained somebody else's husband. The couple was secretly filmed with a thumbnail-sized camera hidden in a bedroom. Since the incident, which became an Internet sensation, Lee can't keep his shelves stocked?and Taiwan is gripped with hidden-camera hysteria...
...says "Tan" (or Chen, depending on pronunciation) is actually a 39-year-old Malaysian lawyer who visits Taiwan every month, and vows to arrest him - and a second suspect named Yeh - the next time he sets foot in Taipei. But since TIME's story, the policeman isn't expecting to see the Internet buccaneer any time soon...
...intellectual property rights that are the very foundation of its business. And the fact that those rights are protected by the World Trade Organization give the movie moguls a mechanism to quickly close up loopholes in local copyright law all over the world. Officials from the American Institute in Taipei reportedly discussed the Movie88.com issue at meetings with officials from Taiwan's justice department. And the result appears to be that Taiwanense authorities are acting on an interpretation of the law somewhat different from...