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The Washington Post reports: China [turns much of its internal internet data monitoring network outward](//www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-harvests-masses-of-data-on-western-targets-documents-show/ar-AASk8e0) , exploits Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to provide its government agencies, military and police with information about foreign targets, according to a Washington Post review of hundreds of tender documents , contracts and Chinese business records. China maintains a nationwide network of government data monitoring services – called public opinion analysis software – which have been developed over the past decade and are used nationally to alert officials to politically sensitive information in line. The software primarily targets Chinese internet users and...
