China Government Spreads Uyghur Analytics Across China
https://ipvm.com/reports/ethnicity-analytics
This exposes that Uyghur persecution and discrimination goes far beyond Xinjiang and is being built on video surveillance technologies
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TikTok Reverses Ban on Teen Who Slammed China’s Muslim Crackdown - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/technology/tiktok-censorship-apology.html
The video app said it would review its policies after a 17-year-old in New Jersey who discussed Chinese detention camps was locked out of her account
‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims - THE XINJIANG PAPERS - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China’s ruling Communist Party in decades. They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.
All the international brands that have apologized to China - SupChina
https://signal.supchina.com/all-the-international-brands-that-have-apologized-to-china/
to maintain their market access in China in recent years. Plus, a record of the even more widespread phenomenon of self-censorship for the Chinese market.
TikTok: U.S. views on censorship were often overridden by Chinese bosses - The Washington Post
former employees who worked in the company’s U.S. offices as recently as this spring said they were instructed to follow rules set by managers at ByteDance’s Beijing headquarters, such as demoting and removing content related to social and political topics, including those censored by the Chinese government
Security researcher gets access to all Xiaomi FurryTail pet feeders around the world - ZDNet
China Wants Communist Party Members to Pledge Loyalty on Blockchain - CoinDesk
TikTok app poses potential national security risk, says senior Democrat - Technology - The Guardian
TikTok reportedly censors materials deemed politically sensitive to the Chinese Communist party, including content related to the recent Hong Kong protests, as well as references to Tiananmen Square, Tibetan and Taiwanese independence, and the treatment of the Uighurs.
China Sharpens Hacking to Hound Its Minorities, Far and Wide - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/technology/china-hackers-ethnic-minorities.html
showing a new determination by Beijing to push its surveillance state beyond its borders.
America blacklists China’s best artificial-intelligence firms
The move, linked to repression in Xinjiang, strikes at the heart of China’s technological ambitions
Blizzard Boycott After Hearthstone Player Punished For Hong Kong Protest Support
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/blizzard-boycott-hong-kong
people who play Blizzard games have started a boycott movement over what’s being called a cowardly act of censorship in favor of the Chinese government.
Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
Blizzard Sets Off Backlash for Penalizing Hearthstone Gamer in Hong Kong - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/asia/blizzard-hearthstone-hong-kong.html
the latest American company to find itself caught between its business interests in China and the values of its core customers
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing - Technology - The Guardian
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties – Reuters
The report, which also included input from the Department of Foreign Affairs, recommended keeping the findings secret in order to avoid disrupting trade relations with Beijing
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience - The Washington Post
Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok
Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims - TechCrunch
Facebook og Twitter straffer Kina etter påvirkningsoperasjon i Hongkong – NRKBeta
Facebook- og Twitterkontoer med opprinnelse i Kina [har] spredt og videreformidlet innhold som framstiller demonstrasjonene i Hongkong som ekstreme og voldelige.
Free VPN App Investigation
https://www.top10vpn.com/free-vpn-app-investigation/
Over half of the most popular free VPN apps are run by secretive companies with hidden Chinese ownership. Very few do enough to earn the trust of the privacy-conscious.
Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society – Reason.com
https://reason.com/2019/07/02/hong-kong-protests-show-dangers-of-a-cashless-society/
Many digital payments can be tracked, potentially assisting an authoritarian crackdown.