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China mines social media sites to equip its military and government agencies with data on Western targets

China is mining social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, to harvest data on foreign targets to be used by its military, police and other agencies. Bidding documents and contracts reviewed by the Washington Post revealed costly purchases of sophisticated data surveillance systems.

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