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China mining social media to harvest data on western targets

January 2, 2022
Source: bigworldtale.com bigworldtale.com
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China mines social media sites including Twitter and Facebook to equip its military and government agencies with data on Western targets, bidding documents reveal - China is mining social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, to harvest data on foreign targets to be used by its military, police and other agencies - Bidding documents and contracts reviewed by the Washington Post revealed costly purchases of sophisticated data surveillance systems - The new software will allow the Chinese state to ‘better understand the underground network of anti-China personnel’ - The nation’s leaders are also forming a network of warning systems that...
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