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 proposes blacklist of training data for generative AI modelsGenerative AI, popularised by the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, learns how to take actions from past data, and creates new content l...
12 Oct, 2023, 09.57 PM IST
Huawei, Alibaba among companies seeking Chinese generative AI approvalsChina's cyberspace regulator has received 110 applications from Chinese technology companies such as Huawei and Alibaba for approvals relat...
01 Sep, 2023, 02.39 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 cyberspace administration launches security probe into DidiDidi said it plans to conduct a comprehensive examination of cybersecurity risks and will fully cooperate with the relevant government auth...
02 Jul, 2021, 06.12 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 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 bans online media from publishing unverified reportsOnline media basing news reports on contents made on social media must verify them before publication, China's Internet regulator said yest...
04 Jul, 2016, 12.57 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