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US 'looking at' banning TikTok and other Chinese apps: Pompeo
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
India has already barred the wildly popular TikTok app over national security and privacy concerns while other countries are reportedly mulling similar measures...
Hong Kong police granted sweeping security surveillance powers
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement comes as major tech companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter said they were suspending requests from the Hong Kong government and law e...
Microsoft, Zoom join pause on Hong Kong data requests
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Microsoft and Zoom said they are pausing consideration of data requests by officials or police in Hong Kong, a precaution also taken by Facebook, Google and Twi...
China censors Hong Kong internet, US tech giants resist
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
The online censorship plans were contained in a 116-page government document released on Monday night that also revealed expanded powers for police, allowing wa...
China warns Canada of 'consequences' over Hong Kong interference
Jul 06, 2020 (AFP)
Canada last week suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and halted exports of sensitive military gear to the financial hub as Western nations voiced co...
UK watchdog upholds complaint against Chinese broadcaster
Jul 06, 2020 (AFP)
Peter Humphrey was jailed for more than two years by a court in Shanghai in 2014, in connection with a corruption case involving pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmith...
Britain set to axe Huawei 5G involvement: report
Jul 06, 2020 (AFP)
The Financial Times said the government will decide this month to phase out the Chinese technology giant's equipment because of persistent concerns about spying...
Hong Kongers scrub social media history in face of security law
Jul 03, 2020 (AFP)
China's authoritarian leaders enacted sweeping new powers on Tuesday -- keeping the contents secret until the last minute -- after more than a year of often vio...
Pompeo welcomes India's ban on Chinese apps including TikTok
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
"We welcome India's ban on certain mobile apps that can serve as appendages of the CCP surveillance state," Pompeo said, referring to the Chinese Communist Part...
Australia ramps up cyber spending after state-backed attacks
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
Morrison and government officials said the country would spend an additional Aus$1.35 billion ($928 million) on cybersecurity, around a 10 percent hike, taking ...
TikTok denies sharing Indian user data with China
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
Blaming each other for the brutal hand-to-hand battle on June 15 as talks make little headway, the Asian giants have been bolstering their border forces as anti...
China to take 'countermeasures' over US ban on military exports to Hong Kong
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing passed the sweeping law for Hong Kong on Tuesday, which critics and many western governments fear will smother the finance hub's freedoms and hollow out...
Aussie lawmaker targeted in China spy raid insists innocence
Jun 29, 2020 (AFP)
Police and intelligence agents raided the home and office of New South Wales state legislator Shaoquett Moselmane at dawn on Friday, part of a months-long inves...
Distorted Chinese, Russian virus news takes root in West: study
Jun 29, 2020 (AFP)
Whether it is distorted coverage or outright conspiracy theories, articles written in French and German by foreign state media are resonating widely on Facebook...
Canadian detainee's wife 'disappointed' Trudeau rules out swap with China
Jun 28, 2020 (AFP)
Trudeau firmly rejected appeals that he intervene in the extradition proceedings against Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, in order to win the rel...
China denounces Canada's 'megaphone diplomacy' over spy charges
Jun 28, 2020 (AFP)
The evidence against the two Canadians, former Beijing diplomat Michael Kovrig and North Korean consultant Michael Spavor, is "solid and sufficient," a statemen...
New wave of ransomware from Russian-led hackers: researchers
Jun 26, 2020 (AFP)
The cybersecurity firm Symantec on Thursday said it had identified at least 31 targets in the United States, including eight Fortune 500 companies. "The attacke...
Trudeau says no to trading Huawei exec for two Canadians held by China
Jun 25, 2020 (AFP)
His comments were in response to a letter penned by 19 Canadian former lawmakers and diplomats, backed by the family of ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig, urging Ottaw...
Former Canada lawmakers, diplomats urge Huawei exec's release
Jun 25, 2020 (AFP)
The letter, made public by broadcaster CBC, comes as Canadian senators called for sanctions on Chinese officials. Meng is wanted in the US for alleged fraud inv...
UN urges 'moratorium' on facial recognition tech use in protests
Jun 25, 2020 (AFP)
Michelle Bachelet's appeal came as her office published a report about the impact of new technologies on the promotion and protection of human rights in the con...
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