Baidu offers a satellite map service much like Google's or Microsoft's. Based in China, it is subject to rigorous censorship. By comparing conspiciously blanked-out areas on Baidu Maps to the corresponding regions in western mapping services, Buzzfeed uncovered a network of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang. But there's more: also concealed this way are […]
The China Film Administration, which is part of China's Central Publicity Department and the China Association for Science and Technology, has released a new official set of moviemaking guidelines titled, "A Few Opinions on the Promotion and Development of Science Fiction Movies." As Variety reports: To make strong movies, the document claims, the number one […]
President orders China-based Tiktok owner ByteDance to sell Musical.ly
"The tactic, which experts in mobile-phone security said was concealed through an unusual added layer of encryption, appears to have violated Google policies"
"The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed legislation to ban the use of the social media app TikTok on federal devices, weeks after the House approved a similar measure," reports The Hill:
The Trump administration's plan to ban various Chinese technologies, and doing business with various Chinese tech entities, is a clear sign of "madness" in U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, wrote China's state-run tabloid Global Times in an editorial on Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today announced a five-part "Clean Network" effort from the Trump administration which Pompeo says is to limit potential national security risks from China.
China isn't prepared to accept the "theft" of Chinese technology company TikTok, and has the capability to respond to Trump's move to push ByteDance to sell short-video app TikTok's U.S. operations to Microsoft, state-controlled China Daily newspaper said on Tuesday.
“In one attack, the hackers weaponized an electronic file with a letter that had a note of condolence from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state.”
Hackers working for China's government targeted firms working on coronavirus vaccines, and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets, claims the Justice Department in a statement Tuesday announcing criminal charges.
The FTC and the Justice Department are investigating claims that TikTok, the popular social media app with close ties to China, violated a 2019 agreement to protect children's privacy.
Zoom performs work of China internet censors -- against users in the U.S.
Starting on Wednesday afternoon, the trending list on the popular Chinese social media app Weibo will be banned for one week, the Cyberspace Administration of Beijing said, for "interfering with online communication orders, disseminating illegal information, and other problems"
Google official says “no sign of compromise” of either campaign
The letter from 4 senators was addressed to Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of TikTok owner ByteDance.
Pro-democracy lawmakers denounced the plans as “the end of Hong Kong”.
On Jalopnik my friend Jason Torchinsky is writing about his experience ordering a $900 electric car from China using Alibaba. It has been an incredibly long and complicated process, involving lots of red tape. Including extra charges and document filing fees the price of the car is now close to $3500. Nevertheless, it's a really […]
