Information on nearly 700 Americans was flagged to a secret Chinese security watchlist during their visits to Shanghai, according to a leaked database seen by The Epoch Times. The list of 697 American citizens, some of them as young as 3 years old, is part of a 1.1 million record dataset involving more than 5,000 foreign citizens. The details recorded include their full names, birth data, and passport numbers, which were captured as the individuals were entering and leaving Shanghai from 2018 to 2020. Shanghai’s Public Security Bureau, which stored the information on its server, answers to the Ministry of State Security, the central government’s top intelligence agency. Among the people on the watchlist were also 172 Canadians, 161 Australians, and hundreds of travelers from Asian countries such as Japan and Taiwan. Three of the people tracked hold diplomatic passports. While the Shanghai records are far from exhaustive, it is …
Nearly 700 Americans’ Data Captured in Giant Chinese Surveillance Sweep
April 10, 2021
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