Washington Post: China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
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.
China maintains a countrywide network of government data surveillance services — called public opinion analysis software — that were developed over the past decade and are used domestically to warn officials of politically sensitive information online.
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Update: China harvests masses of data on Western targets (The Hill)
WNU Editor: It should be easy for China to mine social data. China's Tik Tok is now the number one website in the world .... TikTok surpasses Google as most popular website of the year, new data suggests (NBC News).
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