By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterLawmakers on the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday asked the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to review its management system of slopes along highways and freeways after a landslide on the southbound side of National Sun Yat-sen Freeway （Freeway No. 1） on Tuesday caused severe congestion during peak-hour traffic yesterday morning.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) on Monday expressed concern upon learning that self-service baggage drop systems at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport’s Terminal 1 contain software made in China.
Lin is right to be concerned, as thousands of international flights pass through the terminal every year. Baggage-drop systems collect identifying information about passengers and their travel itineraries. Software within the baggage system could potentially transmit this information to China, which could allow authorities there to know when individuals of interest Taiwanese politicians, foreign dignitaries, democracy activists, Chinese dissidents are leaving or arriving in Taiwan, and where they are
LOOPHOLE: The parts and software for a luggage self-check-in system came from a Chinese firm, which could give it backdoor access to the airport, a lawmaker saidBy Hsieh Chun-lin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer