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Wired
Andy Greenberg @ Wired · 11/21/2024 06:30 EDT

China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.

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