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China tech giant Tencent duped by saucy scammers
Chinese tech giant Tencent has been fooled by impostors posing as representatives of the country’s most famous chilli sauce brand, police said, in a saga that nearly pitched the two famous brands against each other in court.
Staff from controversial Internet addiction treatment centre in China jailed for detaining students illegally
Director general and principal among four staff sentenced over holding young people in guarded rooms for days at a time. Court rejects former students’ request for public apology and compensation but all parties are considering whether to appeal.
Tech firms threaten to quit Belarus after crackdown, Internet outages
For Belarus’s thriving tech industry, it didn’t matter much that the country’s president referred to the Internet as “garbage” and state factories as the engine of economic success. Until now.
With warm words and fast visas, neighbours woo IT workers fleeing Belarus
After Max Korolevsky said he was detained and beaten by security forces during mass protests in Belarus, he asked his IT company to transfer him to neighbouring Ukraine.
Cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee arrested for US tax evasion
Elusive cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee was arrested in Spain for tax evasion in the United States, the US Justice Department in Washington DC said.
Turkey says Facebook risks fines if flouts new social media law
Turkey will penalise Facebook with escalating fines and could make it excrutiatingly slow to use the platform if the company flouts a new social media law that could be used to stifle dissent.
Rights group blasts Argentina for using face recognition tech on kids
Human Rights Watch wants the city of Buenos Aires to stop using live facial recognition to identify children accused of committing crimes, the rights group said on Oct 9.
Facebook touts free speech. In Vietnam, it’s aiding in censorship
For months, Bui Van Thuan, a chemistry teacher turned crusading blogger in Vietnam, published one scathing Facebook post after another on a land dispute between villagers and the communist government.
Can GPS tags stop domestic abusers? France turns to trackers to fight violence
As France trials electronic bracelets to keep domestic abusers away from their victims, women’s rights campaigners have warned that tagging systems will not be enough to stop violent men from killing.
Long a target of police brutality, Nigerian tech fights back
Last year, Aubrey Hruby took two Egyptian venture capitalists on a tour of Nigeria’s technology-startup scene. After five days of meetings with top entrepreneurs, she was convinced the expedition was a success.
