China is turning a major part of its internal Internet-data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets, according to a Washington Post review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
By Cate Cadell
December 31, 2021 at 5:13 p.m. EST