China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data As A Side Hustle

China has created this massive surveillance apparatus. Ordinary individuals find themselves working in a system where there’s not much economic and social mobility and where they have unfettered access to these databases of information based on their jobs in government or at technology companies.

So they’re abusing that access, in many cases by stealing data and selling it in criminal marketplaces.

The result is an ecosystem that operates in full public view where, for as little as a few dollars worth of cryptocurrency, anyone can query phone numbers, banking details, hotel and flight records, or even location data on target individuals.

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