Washington: China is scouring Western social media to equip its military and police with information about foreign targets. This has been claimed in a new report published in The Washington Post. Not only this, after reviewing hundreds of Chinese documents, contracts, and company filings, this mystery of China has been exposed.
China has a nationwide network of data surveillance services that were developed over the past decade and used domestically to warn officials online about politically sensitive information, the new report said. Is.
For this, China uses special software that targets not only domestic Internet users and media, but also collects data related to foreign targets from sources such as Twitter, Facebook, and other Western social media.
Documents obtained by the Washington-based newspaper also show that Chinese agencies, including state media, propaganda departments, police, military and cyber regulators, are buying new or more effective systems for collecting data.
The report further states that an intelligence program of the Beijing Police analyzes Western content on Hong Kong and Taiwan. It also collects Uyghur language material abroad.
