China’s Supreme Court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to nine months in prison for selling virtual private network (VPN) software. VPN encrypts users’ Internet traffic and routes it through a distant connection so that web surfers can hide their identities and location data while accessing websites that are usually restricted or censored by any country. Chinese government announced a 14-month-long crackdown on VPNs in the country at the beginning of this year, requiring VPN service providers to obtain prior government approval. Apple also removed some of the popular VPN apps, including ExpressVPN and Star VPN, from its official Chinese app store.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/09/china-vpn-great-firewall.html