Chinese programmer ordered to pay 1m yuan for using virtual private network
Police confiscate ‘illegal income’ of developer deemed to have used ‘unauthorised channels’ to connect to international networks
A programmer in northern China has been ordered to pay more than 1m yuan to the authorities for using a virtual private network (VPN), in what is thought to be the most severe individual financial penalty ever issued for circumventing China’s “great firewall”.
The programmer, surnamed Ma, was issued with a penalty notice by the public security bureau of Chengde, a city in Hebei province, on 18 August. The notice said Ma had used “unauthorised channels” to connect to international networks to work for a Turkish company.
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