"Under the terms of this sweeping new law, all investigation activity and data gathering in China -- printed, electronic or oral -- can be effectively outlawed as 'espionage'."
I wonder whether it applies also to accessing/mining Chinese Internet remotely?
"Even academics and financial market traders face this risk. Academic (such as CNKI) and securities databases (such as WIND), corporate registries and judicial databases (such as CJO) in China have all been ordered to scale back or shut down access to foreigners. And unauthorized access or facilitation of access to such data could now become a crime under the new scope of the spy law."
I wonder how foreign academics can even work there anymore if the claim about CNKI is true?
"A crucial change is that areas previously covered by privacy provisions under the Criminal Code -- which carried a maximum penalty of three years in jail but usually ended with only a slap on the wrist (if you were not Peter Humphrey) -- can now earn life terms or even a death sentence."
Where-as across the rest of the planet, survelliance is normalized. This is a weirdly upside down situation.
Of course the state has those powers aplenty. But by limiting commercial ability to collect the data, the state may actually have a survelliance deficit, comparatively.
I wonder whether it applies also to accessing/mining Chinese Internet remotely?
"Even academics and financial market traders face this risk. Academic (such as CNKI) and securities databases (such as WIND), corporate registries and judicial databases (such as CJO) in China have all been ordered to scale back or shut down access to foreigners. And unauthorized access or facilitation of access to such data could now become a crime under the new scope of the spy law."
I wonder how foreign academics can even work there anymore if the claim about CNKI is true?
"A crucial change is that areas previously covered by privacy provisions under the Criminal Code -- which carried a maximum penalty of three years in jail but usually ended with only a slap on the wrist (if you were not Peter Humphrey) -- can now earn life terms or even a death sentence."
Happy OSINT'ing!