China Able to Grab 'Entire Digital Identity' of Western Citizens, State Department Says
China Able to Grab 'Entire Digital Identity' of Western Citizens, State Department Says
Washington Examiner talks about the event organized by AS/COA in Washington, DC where Kimberly Breier spoke about the relations between China and the Americas.
Chinese surveillance tactics “pose an existential threat" to the nations of the Western Hemisphere, a senior State Department official warned Friday.
“Citizens living in democracies in the Western Hemisphere could potentially have their entire digital identity under the control and surveillance of an authoritarian government,” Kimberly Breier, the State Department’s top diplomat for the region, told the Council of the Americas.
Breier was chiefly addressing Latin America, with a focus on how China distributes surveillance technology and wireless internet services that leave Westerners exposed to Beijing’s prying eyes. China has been selling its high-tech authoritarianism to dictators such as Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, and even countries friendlier to the United States have been opening their telecommunications networks to Chinese tech companies...
