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China passes new privacy law aimed at protecting users’ personal data

The Verge

China has passed a user data privacy law | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. China has passed a new privacy law aimed at protecting users’ personal data, state media reported. The law takes effect on November 1st. The law takes effect on November 1st.

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As Chinese and Israeli tech relations grow, here are the keys to success

The Next Web

Yair Geva is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman , one of the leading Israeli law firms that has helped facilitate some of the major exits and deals in Israel within the past few years. This year marked a turning point in the Israeli-Chinese economic relationship, particularly in the Israeli-Chinese hi-tech cooperation.

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The China tech crackdown continues

TechCrunch

News broke over the weekend that Beijing filed a civil suit against Tencent “over claims its messaging-app WeChat’s Youth Mode does not comply with laws protecting minors,” per the BBC. And NetEase, a major Chinese technology company, will delay the IPO of its music arm in Hong Kong. Uncertain regulations, per Reuters.

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Former employees say Apple stood by while suppliers violated Chinese labor laws

The Verge

Apple has been complicit in its suppliers’ violations of Chinese labor laws, according to a report from The Information. Suppliers have periodically filled their factories with temporary workers or “dispatch labor,” violating a Chinese labor law requiring no more than 10 percent of a factory’s workers be temporary employees.

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Authorities in China sue Tencent over WeChat’s youth mode

The Verge

Prosecutors in Beijing are suing Chinese tech giant Tencent, claiming the “youth mode” on its WeChat app is against laws protecting minors, Reuters reported. The lawsuit is likely part of a larger crackdown by China on its largest tech companies in recent months; in April, it levied a $2.8 billion (18.23

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. starting to act more like China than the home of the free.

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Grindr reportedly disappears from app stores in China

The Verge

LGBTQ dating app Grindr has been removed from the Apple App Store in China, and is also unavailable on popular Android app marketplaces, Bloomberg reports. The tightening of restrictions comes ahead of China hosting the Winter Olympics in Beijing, which are due to kick off later this week. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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