Tag: CHINESE GOVERNMENT

As part of a cracked-out crackdown on mobile privacy, China now requires all of its citizens to register their personal information before buying cell phones. As Reuters reports, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will now require anyone buying a cell phone to show ID cards, with foreign purchasers having to show their passports. According to the China Daily newspaper, ...

Really, it was only a matter of time. China already blocks Facebook, Twitter and Google, so it's no surprise to see the geolocation-based social game Foursquare added to that list. Details surrounding the censorship are not entirely clear, as with most things coming out of the country. It is widely believed, however, that the blockage is connected to the 21st anniversary of the massacre at ...

In the wake of Chinese cyber-attacks on Google and 30 other companies, there's been plenty of finger-pointing between the U.S. and China. Now, security experts claim they've traced the hack back to its original source. The results aren't going to smooth things over, either. According to an Associated Press report on Huffington Post, unnamed investigators followed the digital trail back to ...

As Chinese citizens continue to shower Google's Beijing headquarters with flowers and "Thank You Google" cards, a group of researchers reportedly identified the source behind the cyber attacks that spurred Google's recent decision to stand up to the People's Republic. According to a report from VeriSign iDefense Labs, the Chinese government was indeed behind the December attack on Google and 30 ...