China’s communist regime will establish a national data bureau to police and manage data resources, according to a plan submitted by the regime’s State Council to the rubber-stamp National People’s Congress during the ongoing Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) top Two Sessions meeting on March 7.
Observers believe that the CCP’s surveillance of China’s people is likely to intensify in the future, and that the move will serve to centralize resources for the regime’s tech war with the United States.
According to an official notice issued by the CCP, the new data bureau will coordinate the integration, sharing, development, and utilization of data resources, and promote the planning and construction of the digital economy and digital society….