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Beijing has ordered Chinese tech giant Tencent to stop launching new apps or updates of the same so that the authorities can inspect their products, as reported by various local media. The government is imposing “transitional administrative guidelines” on Tencent after it was discovered that nine of their products had violated the regulations, has indicated the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, according to the state media China Daily. The decision, made on Wednesday, comes at a time when China has introduced a new privacy law this month that restricts what companies and individuals can do with personal data, which...
