China is threatening the future of the internet, UK spy chiefs have warned.
The Western values which helped develop and shape the world wide web are being sabotaged by the Chinese, whose technological advances and speedy implementation are recasting the international cyber network in Beijing’s authoritarian vision, said the deputy director of strategy at GCHQ, the UK government intelligence centre.
“We in the West have been fortunate that a lot of the technology which has driven the internet has been informed by Western liberal values, democratic values, but that is not going to be the picture going forward,” the senior spook, known only as Ann, told the Cheltenham Science Festival on Thursday….