China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms

February 27, 2015 publisher chinese, congress, file-picture, increasingly, national, national-people, second-largest, weeks-or-months

By Michael Martina and Krista Hughes BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security “backdoors”, a potential escalation of what some firms view as the increasingly onerous terms of doing business in the world's second largest economy.

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China draft counterterror law strikes fear in foreign tech firms