The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Friday, January 05, 2018

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

China’s great firewall is rising
The Economist, January 4, 2018
https://www.economist.com/news/china/21734029-how-high-will-it-go-chinas-great-firewall-rising

Chinese blacklist an early glimpse of sweeping new social-credit control
The Globe and Mail, January 4, 2018
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/chinese-blacklist-an-early-glimpse-of-sweeping-new-social-credit-control/article37493300/

Internet users in China expect to tracked. Now they want privacy.
用户隐私意识增强,中国互联网巨头面临挑战
The New York Times, January 4, 2018
EN: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/business/china-alibaba-privacy.html
CH: https://cn.nytimes.com/business/20180105/china-alibaba-privacy/

Related:
晒“年度账单”却掉坑里,用户权益难逃“潜规则”? (Alipay users opting to post annual expenditures on social media become unwitting objects of social credit rating)
Xinhua News Agency, January 4, 2018
http://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2018-01/04/c_1122212094.htm