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China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband
Great Firewall reaches all the way into space
Networks30 Sep 2024 | 27
Cyberspace Administration of China
Cyberspace Administration of China
China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online
Visible and audible warnings, plus metadata, with absence of info considered suspicious
Public Sector16 Sep 2024 | 19
China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes
Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system
Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 12
China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID'
Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 19
China's internet cleanup campaigns are going so well it needs a new one to protect kids
Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff
Public Sector15 Jul 2024 | 3
Beijing demands government apps must shed their bureaucratic skins
Its hard to disagree with a mandate to make government digital services fit for people, not box-tickers
Software19 Dec 2023 | 13
BROADER TOPICS
Dirty dancing grabs the attention of China's cyberspace regulators
Alibaba service fined as Beijing calls for online platforms to name major creators and deploy kid-mode services
Security02 Nov 2023 | 6
Micron revenue halved in FY23 as China ban bites
Reason for the block still a mystery – but most have their guesses
Systems28 Sep 2023 | 6
Beijing freezes social media service for a month for letting kids see smut
TikTok-esque Mini Worlds, part of the Tencent empire, shamed, fined, warned to do better
Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 6
China – which surveils everyone everywhere – floats facial recognition rules
Regulator says with a straight face that it should not be allowed to analyze ethnicity
Security08 Aug 2023 | 12
China outsources censorship to web giants to break the fake news business model
The likes of WeChat and Weibo suddenly have a lot of work to do – including turning off the money tap
Legal12 Jul 2023 | 10
Beijing proposes rules to stop Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks going rogue
Local wireless network operators need to abide by "correct" political direction
Networks08 Jun 2023 | 16
China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors
Aims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong!
AI + ML16 May 2023 | 5
Beijing's done its sums and found a billion netizens watching short video services
Meanwhile, TikTok analog Douyin cleans up 5,000 misbehaving e-commerce accounts
Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 5
China blocked 54.3 million items online in 2022, after snitches sent 170 million tips
Regulator warns it's far from finished and the deletions will continue until morale improves
Legal01 Mar 2023 | 5
China makes it even harder for data to leave its shores
Many foreign companies had already given up – now there's more red tape
Security27 Feb 2023 | 7
Tech companies in the crosshairs as China proposes antitrust law revisions
After a mysterious pause in crackdowns, it looks like the Beijing everyone knows is back
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 6
Beijing blitz of crypto promotions and marketing underway
Cyberspace Administration of China closes accounts and removes to 'rectify the chaos'
Networks09 Aug 2022 | 3
DiDi in deep doo-doo over 64 billion illegal acts of data collection
Billion-dollar fine for eight billion items lifted from clipboards, 107 million facial recognition files … and more
Legal22 Jul 2022 | 16
China: Our big tech companies are hiring, not shrinking
Please dismiss any thoughts you had that increasing regulation might have hurt the economy
Software11 Apr 2022 | 4
China's internet regulator squeezes famously freewheeling Reddit-alike
App already banned, now it's getting very close supervision
Personal Tech16 Mar 2022 | 5
China launches test satellites for orbiting broadband service
GalaxySpace plans 144 birds for small-footprint high-surveillance service
Networks08 Mar 2022 | 13
China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet
Purveyors of rumours, flirty teens, dodgy infomercials, or bloody violence all told to get in the bin – yet again
Security27 Jan 2022 | 22
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