Tag: china
China is Forcing Tourists to Install a Smartphone App that Steals Personal Data
In China's Xinjiang province, where the Turkish Uyghur population is a majority, is also where the Chinese government has some of its strictest, most...
Google Reportedly Shuts Down China Search Engine Project
Facing widespread criticism over its censored search engine for the Chinese market, Google has reportedly shut down a data collection system that was key...
Apple Plans to Dodge China iPhone Ban with iOS Update
Apple and Qualcomm, as you may or may or know, are not in good terms at the moment, as the companies are battling out...
Apple Appeals As China Bans Sale of Most iPhone Models
Apple has appealed against a Chinese court ruling that banned the sale and import of most iPhone models after granting Qualcomm an injunction against...
Google Employees Join Amnesty in Protesting ‘Dragonfly’ Censored Search Engine for China
Google employees have come together calling out the company to drop Project Dragonfly. They wrote an open letter urging the company to drop the...
Apple, Amazon Deny Having China’s Spy Chips In Their Data Centers
Apple and Amazon have strongly denied a media report that claimed a massive "supply chain attack" by Chinese spies planted chips in motherboards in...
Trump Wants Google to Shut Down China Search Engine Project
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on Google to end its censored Chinese search engine the 'Dragonfly' project. According to a Wall Street Journal...
Google Reportedly Urged Employees to Delete China Search Engine Memo
In its bid to suppress a memo revealing information about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, Google has sent an...
Chinese Intelligence Officials Go Headhunting on LinkedIn to Spy on US
Back in December last year, India's Intelligence Bureau revealed that some Chinese apps such as SHAREit come installed with spyware, prompting the Defence Ministry...
Apple Bans 25,000 Illegal Gambling Apps in China
Apple has reportedly removed 25,000 gambling apps from its App Store in China that flouted the local Internet policies.
In a statement given to The...
Google’s Pichai, Sergey Brin Abandon Internal Meeting about China After Twitter Leaks
In a closed-door meeting with employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin yesterday addressed concerns about the company succumbing to the censorship...
Google Not Close To Launching Censored Search Engine in China: Sundar Pichai
Facing backlash from employees for its reported plan to enter China with a censored version of its search engine, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed...
Airbnb’s Plan to Host a Night at Great Wall of China Hits a Wall...
The Great Wall of China is an iconic spectacle of architecture and is important not just from a historical perspective but is also metaphorical...
Baidu Ready to Beat Google in China, says CEO
As Google is trying to make a comeback in China with censored apps, its biggest rival in the country, Baidu, said it was prepared...
Follow Censorship to Return to China, State Media Advises Google
Google can return to China if it complies with the country's censorship laws, a Chinese state-owned newspaper said in an editorial published on Monday.
"Google...
US Senators Question Sundar Pichai Over Google’s Censored Search Engine for China
Six US senators have written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking about the tech giant's reported plan to create a censored Chinese version of...
Chinese Media Dismisses Claims About Google’s Return to the Country
Taking technology enthusiasts by surprise, Google is reportedly planning a re-entry into the Chinese market. But Chinese media has denied the veracity of the...
Besides Search, Google Will Also Build a Censored News App for China
It was reported yesterday that Google is building a modified version of Google search on the conditions of the Chinese government and taking note...
China Is Using New Bird Drones To Track Its Citizens
China is fast adopting new technologies to fight crime and monitor its citizen's movements. The country already makes use of facial recognition to nab criminals,...
Dark Day for Internet Freedom If Google Accepts Chinese Censorship: Amnesty
In response to reports that Google is developing a search engine that complies with strict Chinese censorship rules, a China-based researcher at the Amnesty...
