

Privacy, user data, national security, malicious foreign governments: It's not all that different from what the White House says it's worried about. ( Here's an explainer on the purpose of the new rules, from a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated newspaper.) Corporate cybersecurity reviews would specifically focus on information that could be "influenced, controlled or maliciously used" by foreign governments.

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Most recently, it's pushing for a rule that would require any internet company with more than a million users to get a cybersecurity review before going public abroad. The Cyberspace Administration of China has been tightening its rules and upping its enforcement across the board.

That comes with all kinds of data-sharing questions, accounting issues and a total lack of visibility into how things really work, as Protocol's Tomio Geron and Shen Lu recently reported.Īnd China's not just making one-off decisions, either.
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IPO market is absurdly hot, and companies are rushing to go public in practically any way they can because money's free and stocks only go up. And don't forget about Ant Group, which had its own IPO put on ice indefinitely.īut there's an odd dichotomy here. Ximalaya, Keep, LinkDoc and others have all reportedly delayed or canceled planned IPOs. Others are following ByteDance's lead, too. "It does create difficulty, and it creates higher expectations for what you can achieve."
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Things just never seem to get less complicated for ByteDance, do they? Zhang Yiming and his team barely got to take a deep breath after months of threats from the Trump White House before it had to figure out how to avoid the ire of the Chinese government.īyteDance scuttled its IPO plans earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported, after Beijing regulators urged the company to look into its data security.
