China’s top spy and anti-espionage agency says it has cracked the case of a Chinese company helping an overseas client gather data about Chinese railways and jailed those who leaked the data. It is the first known case since September 2021, when Beijing’s Data Security Law became effective, of collected data being identified as intelligence. … Read more
“Many online platforms gathered powerful ‘dark technology’ functions that combine both social and office work features,” the ministry said on its official WeChat account on Sunday. It cited instant communication, format conversion, file transfer and group discussion tools as examples of risky applications. Uploading confidential files to those platforms increased the risk for “overseas spying … Read more
The 74 articles in the regulations address the dozen-plus new provisions in the revised state secrets law, which took effect in May. Under the regulations, heads of government departments with the authority to determine state secrets will be responsible for defining them. Those officials are required to draw up a “list of state secrets” within … Read more
China’s move to amend state secrets law fuels concern among businesses One area of change is the “work secrets of government departments”. CCTV quoted Luo Yuan, an NPC official in charge of the amendments, as saying lawmakers, government officials and legal experts had suggested these matters were already largely considered as state secrets but they … Read more
