Tag: tencent
  • Aug 9, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of Hardware, Sets a Global Standard with China’s Toughest Local Privacy Law

For many Westerners, China is a country associated with widespread surveillance, stringent censorship, and human rights abuses in regions such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Despite that, the Chinese government is well aware that the country’s billion Internet users care deeply about personal privacy, and has been steadily introducing surprisingly strong data protection laws to … Continue reading “Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of Hardware, Sets a Global Standard with China’s Toughest Local Privacy Law”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 22, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of January 22nd, 2021 Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger A popular Chinese messaging desktop client, QQ Messenger, has been caught spying on its users’ web browsing history by scraping the history from local storage. Tencent has a suspected history of implementing … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 22, 2021”

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  • Jan 20, 2021 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger

QQ Messenger, a popular Chinese instant messaging app by Tencent, was caught scraping web browser history with their desktop client. The discovery was made by Chinese internet users on the Q and A platforum Zhihu. Here is a Chinese language thread that documents the QQ Messenger web browsing history scraping investigation. Basically, all Chromium based … Continue reading “Tencent has been caught spying on your web browsing history with QQ Messenger”

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  • Aug 4, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Chinese gamers will need to verify their real names on all games by September

China is rolling out a real name authentication and verification system for all gamers in the country by September as a way to track gamers and make sure that they aren’t playing too much. Chinese gamers on popular games such as Honour of Kings (aka Arena of Valor) by Tencent have already been subject to … Continue reading “Chinese gamers will need to verify their real names on all games by September”

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  • Mar 31, 2019 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments,

Taiwan says no to Chinese influence by blocking Tencent and Baidu’s censored video streaming platforms

Taiwan will block Baidu and Tencent from running video streaming services on the island. This past week, Chiu Chui-Cheng, deputy minister of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, told the Nikkei Asian Review that Taiwan is currently making moves to ban Baidu and Tencent services in the country. Baidu operates a video streaming service accessible in Taiwan … Continue reading “Taiwan says no to Chinese influence by blocking Tencent and Baidu’s censored video streaming platforms”

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  • Nov 24, 2018 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Welcome to the burgeoning, globalized business of implementing government surveillance

That fact that massive surveillance is taking place around the world is hardly a secret, not least since Edward Snowden revealed the extraordinary scale and reach of Western spying. But what is less obvious is how globalized the business of surveillance has become. Snowden explained how important the Five Eyes partnership of the US, UK, … Continue reading “Welcome to the burgeoning, globalized business of implementing government surveillance”

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