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...
TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. government over the past few weeks. It now faces a Congressional bill, “Protecting Americans from...
This week, Lithuania’s Ministry of Defense urged its citizens to throw away popular Chinese 5G smartphones after it published a report slamming the devices for content censoring capabilities and improper data collection. The...
Recent investigations by The New York Times and The Information have highlighted how Apple handed access to Chinese users’ iCloud data to a state-owned enterprise, while its suppliers are suspected to have participated in...
As the modern era is increasingly defined by the massive amounts of data generated by everyday transactions and the ways that authorities process this data to target, monitor, monetize, and control the people, Chinese web users...
Earlier this month NetEase user @YouyouXishuoDianying wrote an essay expressing concern over personal privacy in the age of big data. The essay outlines an experience with targeted corporate advertisement on WeChat, and joins...
Update (Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 18:38 ET): The Suzhou city government announced that it had ended the trial of its “civility code” app on September 6. The app is not currently available. Read more about the...
Short video platform TikTok’s enormous popularity among young Westerners, together with its ownership by Beijing-based AI entertainment firm Bytedance, has brought steadily mounting scrutiny in recent months. Critics...
Short video-sharing platform TikTok has been enjoying explosive growth in its mostly young international audience. It has been described in The Washington Post as “the first Chinese app to truly pierce the global Internet...
Although its internet penetration rate is just 55%, China has three times as many smartphone...
The modern era is increasingly characterized by the massive amounts of information generated by...
The news that Apple will hand management of its Chinese users’ iCloud data over to a...
Apple has announced that its iCloud services in China will be operated by a state-owned firm in...
This week’s Economist looks at the global growth of facial recognition technology, of which...
On June 1, the Chinese government passed the country’s first national cybersecurity law....
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) reviews the world’s biggest Internet and telecommunications companies...
On Thursday, February 2nd the Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub think tank, Malavika...
In a new article series, “Cashless Society, Cached Data,” researchers from the Citizen Lab have...
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