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On Wednesday, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council released a new five-year plan to strengthen control over key sectors of the economy, including healthcare, education and technology. The new plan allows the government to scrutinize foreign stock listings, data security, consumer privacy, anti-competitive practices and merger irregularities. This [...]

Chinese tech giant Tencent deleted dozens of university students’ LGBT social media accounts, citing violations of rules around information on the internet Wednesday. The students allege that access to their WeChat accounts was blocked on Tuesday, and they discovered all of the content on their accounts had disappeared on Wednesday. In place of these accounts [...]

In Carpenter v. the United States, the Supreme Court of the United States acknowledged how digital data could provide intrusive details in one click and change the legal definition of privacy forever. The way a common man uses the internet without diving into complexes of his staked rights puts him in jeopardy. Recently, Intermediary Guidelines [...]

The controversy surrounding the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 seems to have taken a global stage. WhatsApp, a California-based Facebook unit and also the most widely used social messaging platform in India, has filed a legal complaint in Delhi High Court against the Indian government seeking to block the [...]

A court in Nanjing in eastern China’s Jiangsu province sentenced a popular blogger, Qiu Ziming, to eight months in jail Tuesday for his comments about Chinese soldiers who died in a border clash with Indian soldiers at Galwan Valley in June of last year. The Chinese government released casualty figures from the Galwan Valley clash [...]

In April 2020, Amazon released a comedy series called “Upload.” The show extrapolates a future in which technological advances have led to the successful simulation of human consciousness in silico. This technology is used by companies to “upload” dying individuals into digital worlds where they can “live” in perpetuity. When uploaded, human consciousness is converted [...]

In the weeks that have passed since Myanmar’s February 1 coup d’état, as dissenters have been jailed, disappeared and killed, a group of JURIST law student correspondents* has participated in street protests by day and navigated government-ordered internet blackouts by night to report on the crisis. Below we provide an overview of the origins and [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A Friday on-the-ground update from another of our law student correspondents in Myanmar, filed before the military’s “daily” Internet shutdown that began at 1 AM MMT Saturday (1:30 PM EST Friday): We don’t know when the internet cut off is anymore. They will just cut off whenever they want. Some say the [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Our law student correspondents in Myanmar continue to send reports of the latest developments on the ground, along with their perspectives and analysis of the legal issues presented by the February 1 military coup. These are excerpts from the first extensive report to JURIST received late last night after the Myanmar military’s [...]

China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced Friday that BBC World News, the BBC’s worldwide news television service, would be discontinued in China following reports of serious violations under Chinese rules and regulations. Following this ban, Hong Kong’s public broadcaster- Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) pulled the plug on the live relay of BBC [...]