Federal prosecutors have charged 2 former Twitter employees suspected of spying for the Saudi Arabian government, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday. The complaint alleges the former Twitter employees spied on more than 6,000 Twitter accounts of users critical of Saudi Arabia. Facebook’s ex-security chief, Alex Stamos, took to […]
China’s social credit system is known for punishing individuals but it is also being used to control the behaviour of foreign companies. According to a new report, the system — which threatens restricted privileges for certain behaviour — was used to successfully threaten dozens of foreign airlines into adopting the […]
Australia has passed sweeping counter-intelligence laws that broaden the offenses of espionage and foreign influence. Though Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the laws don’t target any one country, he has previously talked about “disturbing reports about Chinese influence”. By Turnbull’s own admission, the new laws have spurred tensions […]
A Chinese Embassy official yelled and made demands of an Australian producer to try and censor an episode of “60 Minutes” that would be critical of China. The Chinese Communist Party regularly tries to interfere with foreign Chinese-language media, a former consular diplomat who defected to Australia told Business Insider, […]
