China’s Surveillance State: Henan, Xinjiang, and Beyond
As new Chinese surveillance technology spreads across the country and beyond, Sixth Tone’s...
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Scope of Censorship Expands After Liu Xiaobo Death
A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab analyzes keyword and image...
Citizen Lab: CDT Targeted in Digital Spying Campaign
A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab describes an unsuccessful phishing...
WeChat Filters Images Related to Rights Lawyer Crackdown
A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab probes censorship on Tencent’s WeChat...
China’s Social Credit System: Black Mirror or Red Herring?
Over the past two years, China has seen a proliferation of state-endorsed experiments representing...
Citizen Lab Investigates Alipay, Social Credit
In a new article series, “Cashless Society, Cached Data,” researchers from the Citizen Lab have...
China Clamps Down on “False News” from Social Media
Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is once...
China Developing “Predictive Policing” Data Platform
Several recent articles describe Chinese government plans for predictive policing software to help...
Xinjiang Editor Fired; Others Face Chill Over “Rumors”
At The Guardian, Tom Phillips reports the firing of a Xinjiang newspaper editor over his public...
Hacker Arrests Lift Views of U.S.-China Agreement
After years of mounting tensions over hacking, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the...
Minitrue: Cease Fire on “Great Cannon”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
“Great Cannon” Identified Behind GreatFire Attacks
Last month, the censorship monitoring and circumvention project GreatFire.org was the target of...
WeChat and Global Submission to the GFW
With Tencent’s WeChat app growing in popularity in both China and the world at large, the...
Hacker-hit Tibetan Monks ‘Detach From Attachments’
A new study from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab examines how civil society...
Jason Q. Ng on Hairy Bacon and Digital Censorship
At PEN America, Deji Olukotun talks to Jason Q Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets...
How China Spies
At The National Interest, Peter Mattis explains how the goals and methods of Chinese intelligence...
Sensitive Words: 24th Anniversary of Tiananmen
In 2012, CDT identified 118 terms blocked from Weibo search results around the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. Many of those terms are now blocked again. There is also overlap between this list and Jason Ng’s...
Search Engines’ Chinese Self-Censorship
From Technology Review: To operate in China, search engine companies based in the United States have built products that cooperate with China’s policies of Internet censorship. That much has long been recognized. But a new...
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