Security Expert: China May Have Dossiers on All US Adults

From News Max.com (Aug. 9):

China might have amassed enough digital information to have a dossier on every American adult, and possibly, children," former Trump administration Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger told a Senate panel last week.

"Assembling dossiers on people has always been a feature of Leninist regimes, but Beijing’s penetration of digital networks worldwide has taken this to a new level," Pottinger, who served in President Donald Trump's White House for four years, said during his Aug. 4 testimony in front of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

"The party compiles dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world, using the material it gathers to influence and intimidate, reward, and blackmail, flatter and humiliate, divide, and conquer. As Bill Evanina's written testimony made plain, Beijing has stolen sensitive data sufficient to build a dossier on every American adult — and on many of our children, too, who are fair game under Beijing's rules of political warfare."

The U.S. and other allies blame China for a massive hack of Microsoft's email service in July as well as several other cyber intrusions.

"The United States has long been concerned about the People's Republic of China's (PRC) irresponsible and destabilizing behavior in cyberspace," a White House statement July 19 read. "Today, the United States and our allies and partners are exposing further details of the PRC's pattern of malicious cyber activity and taking further action to counter it, as it poses a major threat to U.S. and allies' economic and national security." [read more]

Doesn’t surprise me. They are a surveillance state.