09 January 2022

Big Brother Lives in China

Are we shocked? 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.

Do you remember when we thought that the internet was going to be a force for good?

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