In June, censorship watchdog GreatFire reported that US-based cloud storage service Dropbox was blocked again, after being available for the first time since 2010 in February. While the details around the raids remain scarce, Microsoft has had a strained relationship with the Chinese government since Edward Snowden’s disclosures revealed that Microsoft technology had been used to aid the NSA in cyberespionage. The ban comes shortly after Chinese government officials raided four Microsoft offices. There are no foreign security firms on the approved list of five security providers. This article originally appeared at The WHI RĬhina is continuing to block foreign technology services from being accessible in the country, as US-based antivirus firm Symantec and Russian firm Kaspersky Labs have been added to a list of tech firms banned from China.Īccording to a report by Business Insider on Monday, China’s government procurement agency has excluded Symantec and Kaspersky from its security software supplier list.
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