As with all modern digital surveillance, if your own government or regime creates a #surveillance system, other actors — including good old-fashioned criminals — may be able to hoover up the data as well. 🤷🏻‍♂️

See the Chinese #SaltTyphoon intrusion into US networks. They want a dossier on everyone on the planet who's able to afford a phone.

Even CCP's own massive internal surveillance state is leaking Chinese subjects' data all over the place...

theregister.com/2024/12/08/chi…

How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system

'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg

^{Jessica Lyons (The Register)}