The Chinese government is studying a bill that all internet users in the country are required to submit their name to register with their service provider. The rulers set the privacy to allow for better monitoring, but the country appears to be the use of the internet even stricter to want to regulate.
According to the current bill, that of the leadership of the party as possible, the green light, to Chinese internet users with their full name to register with their isp and with several online services that they use. Citizens would still have different names online may use, for example on social networking sites.
The state news agency Xinhua describes the plan as a law that the privacy of individual internet users would strengthen, but the fear is that the controllers of databases set up in which the online activities of the approximately half a billion internet users will be stored. In addition, the ministry of Industry and information Technology is also working on a law that developers of mobile applications are required to register with the authorities.
Plans to improve internet freedom in China further to curtail by it more difficult to be anonymous online to operate had been circulating longer in the Communist party; in July 2010, and warned the organization Human Rights in China already for such proposals. In addition, registration for many telecommunications services have been required, for example when requesting a sim card. Also, the so-called Great Firewall of China in the last few weeks further refined: there is diving more and more reports that the firewalls manage to vpn networks to block.