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China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle (www.wired.com)
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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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[–] 0x0 3 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile the US surveillance state does it as a full-time job.