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The country’s civilian spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, said Tuesday it had discovered hundreds of what it said were illegal meteorological stations with foreign links that were sending real-time weather data abroad – breaking data rules and posing national security risks.
It noted that some of the devices were small, easy to install and hard to detect, and could automatically collect data and transmit over a network in real-time. The involved foreign parties did not obtain administrative licences for their activities, the spy agency said, and had not submitted the data to Chinese meteorological authorities or transmitted the data overseas with approval. The ministry said the activities violated both China’s data security law enacted in 2021 and a separate set of regulations on how foreign organizations can collect, use and share Chinese weather readings.
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