China’s Surveillance State: Henan, Xinjiang, and Beyond
As new Chinese surveillance technology spreads across the country and beyond, Sixth Tone’s...
Feb 6, 2018
As new Chinese surveillance technology spreads across the country and beyond, Sixth Tone’s...
Jul 17, 2017
A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab analyzes keyword and image...
Jul 5, 2017
A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab describes an unsuccessful phishing...
Apr 13, 2017
A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab probes censorship on Tencent’s WeChat...
Feb 16, 2017
Over the past two years, China has seen a proliferation of state-endorsed experiments representing...
Jan 24, 2017
In a new article series, “Cashless Society, Cached Data,” researchers from the Citizen Lab have...
Jul 4, 2016
Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is once...
Mar 9, 2016
Several recent articles describe Chinese government plans for predictive policing software to help...
Nov 2, 2015
At The Guardian, Tom Phillips reports the firing of a Xinjiang newspaper editor over his public...
Oct 14, 2015
After years of mounting tensions over hacking, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the...
Apr 14, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Apr 10, 2015
Last month, the censorship monitoring and circumvention project GreatFire.org was the target of...
Jan 8, 2015
With Tencent’s WeChat app growing in popularity in both China and the world at large, the...
Nov 11, 2014
A new study from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab examines how civil society...
Aug 1, 2014
At PEN America, Deji Olukotun talks to Jason Q Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets...
Mar 6, 2014
At The National Interest, Peter Mattis explains how the goals and methods of Chinese intelligence...
Jun 3, 2013
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...
Jul 1, 2008
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...