On April 6, a Weibo user from Zhejiang province reported a case of local anti-fraud center overreach that resulted in his bank cards and Alipay account being frozen after he made a work-related call to a Singaporean bank. In a...
As the one-year anniversary of the lifting of China’s “zero-COVID” policy approaches, residents in many provinces in China have been dismayed and alarmed by the apparent return of mobile phone app-based health codes. Screenshots...
As of June 7, the Twitter account belonging to Bei Zhenying, wife of well-known blogger program-think (whose real name is Ruan Xiaohuan), appears to have been deleted. The abrupt deletion of her relatively new account...
At Quartz, Jane Li reports on a statement released late last month by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, that anyone applying for a new mobile and data service plan will need to have their faces scanned by...
The ability to persistently link people’s identities and activities is a core theme of China’s...
New statistics about mobile apps show that the Chinese market is the driving factor in the rapid...
Alleged Chinese hacking of American companies may have diminished since tensions over the issue...
The New York Times’ Paul Mozur reports that mobile Internet users in Xinjiang have had their...
Six Chinese professors have been arrested by the U.S. on charges of espionage for allegedly...
Despite Chinese authorities’ deep experience in restricting electronic content, The...
A blog post from security firm Lacoon details the discovery of mobile malware apparently being...
According to China Internet Network Information Center, the number of Chinese Internet users...
The Wall Street Journal’s Lorraine Luk and Daisuke Wakabayashi report a long-anticipated...
At All Things D, Ina Fried and John Paczkowski report that a senior Android executive is leaving...
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson writes about “China’s Smartphone Generation”: heavy mobile users, from young factory workers to yuppies, of social media, dating apps and video games: Kantar Media, a U.K.-based...
According to new figures from the China Internet Network Information Center, there are now 591 million Internet users in China. AP reports: China’s population of Internet users has grown to 591 million, driven by a 20...
A white paper (PDF) by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s China Academy of Telecommunication Research has warned of excessive dependence on the Android mobile operating system, and accused its developer...
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