Last summer, the Chinese government released a proposal for a national internet ID system. The proposal was met with strong opposition, which was heavily censored online. (See CDT’s past coverage for ...

The government said the proposal would protect online privacy. Critics said it could further concentrate government control over the internet. By Meaghan Tobin and John Liu Meaghan Tobin reported from ...

Civil liberties organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has dismissed a proposal to restrict access to Internet accounts to those that can satisfy a 100 point identity check as "ludicrous".

China's national online ID service went into affect earlier this month, promising to increase user privacy by reducing the amount of data collected by private-sector companies, but privacy and digital ...

China has mastered the craft of policing the internet, operating one of the world’s most extensive online censorship and surveillance regimes. With mandatory identity checks on every online platform, ...