Saturday 28 February 2015

China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms

China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms


China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security "backdoors", a potential escalation of what some firms view as the increasingly onerous terms of doing business in the world's second largest economy. A parliamentary body read a second draft of the country's first anti-terrorism law this week and is expected to adopt the legislation in the coming weeks or months.

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