Report: China is using social media to mine data on Western targets

According to The Washington Post, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is harvesting masses of data from social media such as Twitter and Facebook to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on Western targets. The Post made such a conclusion on China's mining of Western social media after it has reviewed hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings. Accordingly, China uses a countrywide network of government data surveillance services, called public opinion analysis software, that the country has developed over the past decade domestically to warn officials of politically sensitive information online. China's public opinion analysis…