News Snapshot:
A Chinese company with reported links to Beijing’s military and intelligence arm has amassed the personal details of thousands of Canadians as part of a giant global database targeting influential figures and their families, according to reports from a global media consortium that accessed an early copy of the database. The company, Zhenhua Data, is tied to the People’s Liberation Army, the Ministry of State Security, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and has collated the profiles of 2.4 million people across the world. Titled the Overseas Key Individuals Database, it includes personal information on at least 5,000 Canadians, according...
