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China adopts new security law to make networks, systems ‘controllable’

July 1, 2015 admin consumer-holds, economy, file-picture, master, national-people, said-the-site, security-covers, the-standing, tighten-cyber, wisniewski

By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) – China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law on Wednesday that covers everything from territorial sovereignty to measures to tighten cyber security, a move likely to rile foreign businesses. A core component of the law, passed by the standing committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), is to make all key network infrastructure and information systems “secure and controllable”

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China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms

February 27, 2015 publisher chinese, congress, file-picture, increasingly, national, national-people, second-largest, weeks-or-months

By Michael Martina and Krista Hughes BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security “backdoors”, a potential escalation of what some firms view as the increasingly onerous terms of doing business in the world's second largest economy.

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China censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accounts

February 27, 2015 creative accounts, alibaba-group, baidu, china, chinese, cyberspace, down-control, effort-which, national-people, second-largest, seen-through, showing-binary, singapore, the-accounts, weibo-corp

Some of China's largest Internet companies deleted more than 60,000 online accounts because their names did not conform to regulations due to take effect on Sunday, the top Internet regulator said.