China to restrict mobile app news notifications in Internet clampdown, East Asia News & Top Stories


Source: straitstimes.com straitstimes.com

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SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - China's Internet watchdog said on Saturday (May 8) that it will ban some mobile app notifications and tighten regulations as the government ramps up a campaign to rein in the growing influence of Internet companies over its citizens' daily lives. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) will strengthen guidance and control of mobile app information sources, and restrict notification volumes as part of what it terms a "people's war" aimed at bringing order to the online environment, Mr Xie Dengke, a CAC spokesman told a State Council press conference. The CAC will ban media-related mobile applications from...