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China is mining western social media to provide military and police information on foreign targets, according to a new report from The Washington Post. This revelation followed a review of hundreds of Chinese bid documents, contracts, and company filings. According to this new report, China maintains a nationwide network of data surveillance services developed over the last decade and used domestically to alert authorities to politically sensitive information online. The software is targeted at domestic internet users and media, and also collects data about foreign targets from sources such as Twitter, Facebook and other Western social media. Documents accessed by...
