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CDT Weekly, February 12-18: Ilham Tohti, Xinjiang, and Why Clubhouse Had to Die
Posted by Samuel Wade | Feb 18, 2021
Welcome to the second edition of CDT’s weekly roundup, also available as an email newsletter through Substack. With these updates, we aim to provide an overview of new content across CDT’s English and Chinese sites, as well as the bilingual China Digital Space wiki, and related content elsewhere.
The highlight of our translation content this week was a long essay from 2009 by journalist and website founder Huang Zhangjin, describing his
Some of the views attributed to Ilham in Huang’s paraphrased recollections may be unpalatable: he approvingly quotes Liu Xiaobo’s views on the benefits of Western colonialism, and implicitly disparages the industriousness of people from other developing regions. But the essay clearly conveys Ilham’s vision of an alternative path for Xinjiang within the People’s Republic, far from the aggressive suppression that has inte
“We included clear and strict mechanisms in terms of both monitoring and review, suspension or withdrawal of such decisions, to address any problematic development of the UK system after the adequacy would be granted.”
– Věra Jourová
, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, speaking about the Commission’s draft adequacy decision for EU-UK data transfers on Friday.
Top Story: The European Commission has issued draft adequacy approval on transfers of personal data between the EU and the UK, noting however that it will ‘monitor’ progress and reserve the right to rescind the decision should the UK diverge from EU data protection rules to a ‘problematic’ degree. Read on for more.
Partisan disinformation to undermine 2020’s presidential election shadowed every step of the voting process last year but took an unprecedented turn when the earliest false claims morphed into intricate conspiracies as Election Day passed and President Trump worked to subvert the results, according to two of the nation’s top experts tracking the election propaganda.
At the general election’s outset, as states wrapped up their primaries and urged voters to use mailed-out ballots in response to the pandemic, false claims began surfacing online in tweets, social media posts, text messages, reports on websites, videos and memes targeting the stage in the electoral process that was before voters. These attacks on the nuts and bolts of voting, from registration to the steps to obtain and cast a ballot, began as “claims of hacking and voter fraud… [that] honed [in] on specific events,” said Matt Masterson, who helped lead the Department of Homeland Security’s election secur
Experts caution privacy, security issues over popular app Clubhouse
02/17/2021 08:35 PM
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Taipei, Feb. 17 (CNA) People planning to use social media app Clubhouse, the No. 1 downloaded app in Taiwan at the end of January, should take precautionary measures given the lack of proper protection currently provided by the app, experts at accounting firm KPMG Taiwan said in a statement Wednesday.
The app, owned by U.S. firm Alpha Exploration Co., is currently only available to users of Apple Inc s iOS devices. It enables users to open online chat rooms and discuss issues of their choice or interest.