British Students Fined for Collecting GPS Data in Xinjiang

In October, a group of British graduate students was fined by the Chinese authorities for illegal map-making activity, the Daily Telegraph reports. (See also AFP coverage: Google, Yahoo; AFP reports three students, the Telegraph only two.) The students were researching earthquake activity in the tense Xinjiang region; they had received permission from China’s central earthquake administration, but not from local authorities. Via GeoCarta.

Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Categories: Censorship, Security & Privacy

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