The internet in China is already tightly controlled and censored. The "Great Firewall" blocks the country's more than 1 ...

China is launching a digital ID system, giving Beijing greater control over online activity and further raising concerns ...

AliExpress: While most tech companies have a tool that allows them to fulfil requests for downloading user information, some ...

Beijing is moving to crack down on the use of facial recognition by private companies, while preparing to roll out its state-issued national digital ID.

Dalian Polytechnic University recently announced it would expel a student for what it termed her “improper contact with a foreigner” that “undermined the national dignity” of China. The incident ...

Last summer, the Chinese government released a proposal for a national internet ID system. The proposal was met with strong opposition, which was heavily censored online. (See CDT’s past ...

Critics of the controversial provision in the Big Beautiful Bill included a diverse group ranging from Marjorie Taylor Greene ...

A man in Nanjing secretly recorded and sold videos of himself with hundreds, raising serious privacy, health, and legal concerns.

A sweeping sexual privacy scandal has triggered national outrage and exposed critical gaps in China's legal and digital frameworks. Known online as 'Sister Hong,' a man from Nanjing allegedly lured ...

Plus: An “explosion” of AI-generated child abuse images is taking over the web, a Russian professional basketball player is ...

As a proportion of China’s GDP, household debt has risen from less than 11% in 2006 to more than 60% today, close to ...

Victims call for city to reform its laws to adequately penalise this "new form of sexual violence". Read more at straitstimes ...