Tag: Weibo

  • Hacker selling data of 538 million Weibo users

    The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online, according to …

  • Facial recognition used to strip adult industry workers of anonymity

    As if we don’t already have enough facial-recognition dystopia, someone’s claiming to have used the technology to match the faces of …

  • China’s top social networks face investigation for hosting porn and illicit content

    China continues to crack down on online media after the government announced that it is investigating three of the country’s most influential social networks for hosting illicit content. The Office for Cyberspace Administration is looking into content on chat app WeChat, micro-blogging platform Weibo and web forum Baidu Tieba, each of which stands accused of…

  • Tencent, Baidu, Weibo under investigation by China’s cyberspace regulator: Report

    China’s online watchdog has launched an investigation into reports of multiple violations at some of the country’s largest online services, Bloomberg has reported. According to the report, the Cyberspace Administration of China has instructed its Beijing and Guangdong branches to look into reports that news services run by Tencent, Baidu, and Weibo are carrying user-generated…

  • Chinese censorship cracks down on WeChat, Weibo, WhatsApp

    Researchers at Citizen Lab have noticed a censorship crackdown on WeChat and Weibo in wake of the death of Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo last week. The research group within the University of Toronto used a set of phones registered to WeChat with mainland Chinese phone numbers, and another set…

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