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.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

ICTs and Human Rights (信息技术与人权)

World’s leading human rights groups tell Google to cancel its China censorship plan
The Intercept, August 28, 2018
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/28/google-china-censorship-plan-human-rights/

Related:
Advocacy groups condemn Google’s “alarming capitulation on human rights” over plan to build censored search engine in China
Agence France-Presse, August 28, 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6107759/Advocacy-groups-criticize-Googles-alarming-capitulation-censored-China-search-engine.html

Open letter: Google must not capitulate on human rights to gain access to China
Amnesty International, August 28, 2018
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/08/open-letter-to-google-on-reported-plans-to-launch-a-censored-search-engine-in-china/