Spies for hire: China’s new breed of hackers blends espionage and entrepreneurship
China’s premier spy agency is increasingly reaching beyond its own ranks to recruit from a vast pool of private-sector talent. This new group of hackers...
China punishes Microsoft’s LinkedIn over lax censorship
LinkedIn has been the lone major American social network allowed to operate in China. To do so, the Microsoft-owned service for professionals censors the posts...
With hacks and cameras, Beijing’s electronic dragnet closes on Hong Kong
Hong Kong security forces are using harsher tactics to close a digital dragnet on activists, pro-democracy politicians and media leaders. The moves bear similarities to...
In coronavirus fight, China gives citizens a color code, with red flags
A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
China uses DNA to map faces with help from the West; the mass collection effort is raising questions about consent and use
Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
How China uses technology to segregate and subdue minorities
China is in effect hard-wiring Xinjiang for segregated surveillance, using an army of security personnel to compel ethnic minorities to submit to monitoring and data...