China moves to regulate digital humans, bans addictive services for childrenThe draft regulations would also ban the use of other people's personal information to create digital humans without consent, or using virt...
03 Apr, 2026, 11.43 PM IST
Chinese regulator summons ByteDance, Alibaba's platforms over content violationsChina's cyberspace regulator has summoned ByteDance's Toutiao and Alibaba's UCWeb due to content violations. The platforms are penalized fo...
23 Sep, 2025, 08.40 PM IST
China's Cyberspace Administration is conducting review of Shein: reportThe government is also interested in the type of Chinese data that the company will disclose to regulators in the U.S. as Shein seeks a lis...
17 Jan, 2024, 11.57 AM IST
China’s cyberspace regulator summons Alibaba’s Quark, Netease CC over vulgar contentThe regulator also ordered Netease's livestream platform Netease CC to suspend the broadcast of some types of dance content for seven days ...
30 Oct, 2023, 07.35 PM IST
China selects pilot zones, application areas for blockchain projectAlthough China is promoting blockchain technology, it has banned bitcoin, which is based on the technology. Regulators in September cracked...
31 Jan, 2022, 09.21 AM IST
China regulator issues draft rules for cyberspace content providersThe rules are aimed at further regulating technologies such as those using algorithms to generate and modify text, audio, images, and videos
28 Jan, 2022, 01.20 PM IST
China now targets online platforms to 'clean up' internetThe Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it would launch a two-month special operation to target deceptive online behaviours, rang...
24 Dec, 2021, 12.37 AM IST
China regulator proposes cybersecurity review for some firms planning Hong Kong IPOsThe Cyberspace Administration of China's (CAC) latest draft proposals on online data security management follow a proposed regulation in Ju...
14 Nov, 2021, 02.49 PM IST
China unveils plan to bring algorithms of its internet industry under state control to tighten censorshipChina's cyberspace watchdog and other government bodies will set up governance rules for algorithms in around three years as Beijing seeks ...
29 Sep, 2021, 10.13 PM IST
China announces Didi cybersecurity investigationThe Chinese government on Friday announced a cybersecurity investigation of ride-hailing service Didi, stepping up scrutiny after earlier c...
16 Jul, 2021, 11.50 AM IST
China widens clampdown on overseas listings with pre-IPO review of firms with large user dataThe security review will put a focus on risks of data being affected, controlled or manipulated by foreign governments after overseas listi...
10 Jul, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
Social media account of China's Xiaohongshu goes dark after Tiananmen anniversary postThe Friday post on its account on China's Twitter-like Weibo said, "Tell me loud: what's the date today?", according to a screenshot seen b...
06 Jun, 2021, 04.57 PM IST
China says ByteDance, Baidu, Microsoft improperly collected user dataChina Cyberspace Administration says companies including ByteDance, Baidu and Kuaishou improperly collected user data.
21 May, 2021, 01.04 PM IST
China removes TripAdvisor, 104 other apps from app stores under cleansing campaignThese apps violated one or more of three cyber laws, said The Cyberspace Administration of China in a statement on its website, without pro...
08 Dec, 2020, 10.29 AM IST
China fines tech firms over online contentThe amounts of the fines were not made public. The companies were also ordered to immediately remove illegal content as well as increase pl...
26 Sep, 2017, 01.18 PM IST
China shuts down 18 illegal live streaming appsSome app operators were punished for the lack of a mechanism to censor content and some anchors used the platforms to spread illegal conten...
02 Apr, 2017, 05.25 PM IST
China targets pop-up windows containing illegal contentChina today announced plans to clean up internet pop-up windows that contain pornographic and illegal content.
24 Sep, 2014, 09.25 PM IST