China is expanding the use of AI throughout its criminal justice system and developing tools to deepen its monitoring of ethnic minorities, a new report finds.

China has embraced AI to help it censor and surveil its citizens and is exporting its techniques to the world, according to a ...

Revenue in China from micro-dramas is projected to nearly double this year, to 90bn yuan ($12.7bn)—exceeding sales of cinema ...

Violations of online regulations include making distorted interpretations of housing policies, says Chinese administration.

The Chinese government is developing AI systems in minority languages — including Korean used by ethnic Koreans in China — to expand state surveillance and control, an Australian think tank warned.

A new report details how China’s tech giants are building powerful tools that help the state track dissent, filter speech, and manage political risk at scale ...

The digital age promised freedom, connection, and endless possibilities. Instead, it has delivered something far more ...

Nobody expects China or Iran to protect privacy. But as seen in the European debate over chat control, even nominally free ...

The latest annual report on online trends from Freedom House, published earlier this month, is predictably bleak. The democracy watchdog group says digital liberties worldwide deteriorated for the ...

Kremlin efforts to control what Russians do, read or say online dates to 2011-12, when the internet was used to challenge authority. Independent media outlets bloomed, and anti-government ...

A VPN cannot protect you from all online threats, such as eavesdropping attacks, fake Wi-Fi hotspots or IP-based tracking.

What happens when the two global superpowers spat over an app that started with tweens lip-synching? As Emily Baker-White ...