Sharing your personal info!!-----China harvests masses of data on Western targets from Twitter and Facebook, documents show | Daily Mail Online

China harvests masses of data on Western targets from Twitter and Facebook, documents show| Daily Mail Online

• 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
• The new software will allow the Chinese state to 'better understand the underground network of anti-China personnel' 
• The nation's leaders are also forming a network of warning systems that will sound real-time alarms for trends that undermine the state's interests 
• Analyzing domestic public opinion online is a large pillar of President Xi Jinping's initiative to modernize the country's 'propaganda apparatus and maintain control over the Internet'