In China, consumers are becoming more anxious about data privacy (original) (raw)
China | Public pushback
In China, consumers are becoming more anxious about data privacy
Will this impede the government’s snooping?
Jan 25th 2018|BEIJING AND HONG KONG
XU YUYU was a poor 18-year-old student from the coastal province of Shandong when, on the eve of going to university in 2016, she was defrauded of the savings that her family had painstakingly accumulated for her. She died of a heart attack that was caused, a court said, by the fraud. Ms Xu’s fate sparked an impassioned debate in China about data privacy because the scammer, Chen Wenhui, had paid a hacker for stealing her personal details. He was sentenced to life in jail for theft of private information.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Public pushback”
From the January 27th 2018 edition
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