A China-style internet gateway scheduled to be imposed in Cambodia this week would grant the government far greater powers to conduct mass surveillance, censor and control the country’s internet, rights groups have warned.Human rights experts and media advocates fear the gateway could be a step towards the kind of censorship enforced through China’s Great Firewall – though some question what technical capacity Cambodia’s systems currently have, and say the process has lacked transparency.Unde

China's new data security law takes effect from Wednesday – the latest effort to tighten oversight of the country's mammoth tech sector.The broadly worded law seeks to tighten the leash on China's tech giants and what they do with information from their hundreds of millions of users. It also comes as fears grow over data security with government departments becoming increasingly dependent on cloud storage services.Beijing has also flagged national security concerns as

China on Tuesday sharply denied United States (US) allegations it carried out a massive Microsoft hack, countering that Washington was the "world champion" of cyberattacks while raging at American allies for signing up to a rare joint statement of condemnation.The US on Monday accused Beijing of carrying out the cyberattack on Microsoft and charged four Chinese nationals over the "malicious" hack in March.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the attack on Microsoft Ex

President Donald Trump is days away from announcing strong action against the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok to protect United States (US) national security, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday.He said TikTok and other Chinese software companies operating in the US, such as WeChat, feed personal data on American citizens directly to the Chinese Communist Party. For years the US has put up with this because Americans felt "we're having fun with it,&quo

While the origins of the novel coronavirus, now better known as COVID-19 have not been identified, it is safe to assume that China's wildlife market in Wuhan played a central role in the early spread of the deadly virus. According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNDOC), the global wildlife trafficking industry is worth between US$7 billion and US$23 billion, annually.