To protect sensitive data, China’s government has built one of the world’s strictest cybersecurity and data-protection regimes. Despite those efforts, a thriving cross-border underground market has grown up around the trade in the data of Chinese citizens.

Much of that data comes from another of the Chinese government’s big security projects: its extensive surveillance network.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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