News Snapshot:
According to a Washington Post review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts, and company filings, China is expanding its internal Internet data surveillance network by mining Western social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, to provide information on foreign targets to its government agencies, military, and police. China has a nationwide network of government data monitoring services, known as public opinion analysis tools, that have been built over the last decade and are used domestically to alert officials to politically sensitive information on the internet. The software is primarily aimed at Chinese Internet users and media, but a Washington...
