“Confused by sweeping new restrictions on encryption technology
in China, most foreign and Chinese companies simply ignored a
Monday deadline for compliance.”
“Anybody using encryption technology, which protects
electronic communcation from eavesdropping, should have delivered
by hand a registration form to a tiny government office in a
Beijing alleyway by Monday afternoon.”
“All of China’s estimated nine million Internet users were
supposed to have turned up in person to comply — if the letter of
the new law had been followed.”
“The new rules threaten to complicate Beijing’s efforts to join
the World Trade Organisation…”
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