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TikTok’s fall from grace and its hurdles to come

Zhang Yiming, the founder of TikTok’s mother company ByteDance, wanted to make a global Chinese tech company, but he knew what needed to be done to accomplish that. He made TikTok unavailable in China and stored data outside the country. This kept Chinese censors away from the app and user data, supposedly, out of Beijing’sContinue reading “TikTok’s fall from grace and its hurdles to come”

China’s gaming regulations tighten: 26,000 apps purged and a new identity check from next month

Chinese authorities have long policed the gaming industry, and this year its loopholes in regulation are quickly closing up. With new identity checks coming into effect next month, Beijing is one noteworthy step closer to regulating the gaming industry as tightly as the internet is in the country. Earlier this month, Apple removed 26,000 gamesContinue reading “China’s gaming regulations tighten: 26,000 apps purged and a new identity check from next month”

From South Korea to Norway, our honeymoon with COVID-19 apps is already over

Since China’s contact tracing system went live in February, around 30 countries have released official contract tracing apps. An evolution of traditional contact tracing systems, what seemed a few months ago to be a daunting yet exciting technological innovation has already reached a turning point. A range of privacy rows have ensued, and according toContinue reading “From South Korea to Norway, our honeymoon with COVID-19 apps is already over”

Where China’s heading with its upcoming data security laws

Earlier this month, China’s national legislature released a draft of its future Data Security Law, which with the upcoming Personal Information Project Law will become China’s latest set of data protection and privacy regulations. The last significant legislation on the subject was the Cybersecurity Law which took effect in 2018 but has proven to beContinue reading “Where China’s heading with its upcoming data security laws”