Thursday, June 28, 2018

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

快手:永久封禁12个涉“庆阳女孩跳楼遭网络直播”事件账号 (Short video and social network company Kuai Shou permanently shuts down 12 accounts for live streaming suicide incident)
Modern Express, June 26, 2018
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2221157

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Chinese teenager’s suicide sparks #MeToo soul-searching, anger at onlookers
Hong Kong Free Press, June 28, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/06/28/chinese-teenagers-suicide-sparks-metoo-soul-searching-anger-onlookers/

China’s social credit system “could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty”
The Guardian, June 27, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/28/chinas-social-credit-system-could-interfere-in-other-nations-sovereignty

China’s hi-tech police state in fractious Xinjiang a boon for security firms
Agence France-Presse, June 27, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2152749/chinas-hi-tech-police-state-fractious-xinjiang-boon

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中国高科技公司从新疆监控大获其利 (China's high-tech companies gain huge profits from monitoring in Xinjiang)
Radio Free Asia, June 27, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shaoshuminzu/wy-06272018104226.html

Huawei wouldn't give Australian users' data to China, says chairman
The Guardian, June 27, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/huawei-wouldnt-give-australian-users-data-to-china-says-chairman

Related:
Huawei chairman slams US lawmaker calls for its US education partnerships to be investigated
South China Morning Post, June 28, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2152846/huawei-chairman-slams-us-lawmaker-calls-its-us-education-partnerships-be

公安部拟将网络分为五个安保等级 严禁泄露个人信息 (Ministry of Public Security proposes 5 levels of protection for personal information online)
Chinanews, June 27, 2018
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2018/06-27/8548011.shtml