The proposal comes as pressure mounts on ByteDance over TikTok's 'excessive' harvesting of users' data, which could be shared with Chinese authorities.

ByteDance has so far resisted US demands to divest TikTok, with the details of the new data security deal still being hammered out

Only 19 per cent of applications were approved, with Chinese citizens prohibited from participating in leading blockchains overseas

Chinese surveillance technologies and tactics are being rolled out in more than 50 countries, including facial recognition CCTV and social media bans, The Straits Times said

US President issued an order on Thursday directing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US to focus on microelectronics, artificial intelligence, biotech and quantum computing.

The chief operating officer of TikTok declined to tell US lawmakers on Wednesday "that the short-form video app will cut off flows of US user data to China"

The country’s cyberspace regulator is looking impose harsher punishments for breaches of its data security laws

Seoul's Personal Information Protection Commission said it had fined Alphabet's Google $50m and Meta $22m for privacy violations. Both said they would review the finding.

The FBI told Twitter an agent from China's Ministry of State Security was on its payroll, a Senate Judiciary Committee heard on Tuesday

Chinese hackers have been allowed to collect unprecedented amounts of information on US citizens, claimed writer Gordon G Chang

State internet shutdowns "cause significant inconvenience to local public at large," the Internet and Mobile Association of India said

Growth rate could now though slow due to government concerns that smartwatches are harmful to child development, reported the Nikkei