database, digital dictatorship, fertility status, state surveillance

Chinese Database Leak Shows Depth of Surveillance Rabbit-Hole

Recently, an unsecured database from China was accessed by a Dutch security researcher who revealed the shocking depth of state surveillance. The database contained close to 364 million records of Chinese citizens. The information captured included private chat logs, names, GPS locations, file transfers, and so on. Wide surveillance network database The security researcher, Victor Gevers, who ...

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Internet cafe in Shenzhen.

CCP Tracking Private Messages on Chinese Social Media

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using an online surveillance program to track private messages of users on apps like WeChat and QQ, a data leak shows. The leak was discovered by Victor Gevers, a security researcher who works for the non-profit GDI foundation that campaigns for a free Internet. Tracking social networks Gevers ...

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CCP's Message Tracking

China Is Tracking Millions of People in Xinjiang, Data Leak Reveals

China has been conducting real-time tracking of over 2.5 million residents in the Xinjiang region according to a data leak. Xinjiang has been in the news in recent years because of the inhumane treatment suffered by Uyghur Muslims in the region at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tracking people in Xinjiang SenseNets, a ...

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Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.

Millions Blocked From Travel Due to China’s Social Credit Surveillance

Over 9 million Chinese citizens have been blocked from buying flight tickets due to their low Social Credit Rating, a system that measures a citizen’s “trustworthiness.” Three million people were also barred from buying business-class train tickets. The Chinese Communist Party plans on fully implementing the system in Beijing starting in 2020. Banning travel to ...

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A China Airlines jet.