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How To Discuss User Privacy In China?

One of the fun things about China, and the Chinese Internet, is that new issues can pop up very quickly, and become major issues. This has just happened with the issue of user privacy on the Internet. With more social network sites, and more users... ...full story at China Vortex

from China Vortex on Tue, Sep 16 2008

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