What you need to know about TikTok owner ByteDance as the US considers a possible ban

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a measure that could lead to the forced sale or ban of video-sharing app TikTok in the United States, amid concerns that the Chinese platform could be used to monitor and target Americans manipulate. The battle over TikTok, which says it has 170 million American users, … Read more

An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare insight into ubiquitous state surveillance

Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor tied to the country’s top police agency and other parts of the government — a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activities and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners. The obvious targets of the stricken company’s … Read more

Hospitals are not overwhelmed by ‘mysterious’ pneumonias, says China

Chinese authorities say they have no evidence that “unusual or new” pathogens are causing a surge in childhood pneumonias in the country. Health records provided on Thursday at the request of the World Health Organization showed that Chinese hospitals first recorded a rise in cases of respiratory disease in children in May, five months before … Read more