{"id":8940,"date":"2018-11-01T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:07:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T18:07:45","slug":"starting-november-1st-chinese-police-can-go-to-any-chinese-isp-to-copy-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/starting-november-1st-chinese-police-can-go-to-any-chinese-isp-to-copy-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting November 1st, Chinese police can go to any Chinese ISP to copy your data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier in October 2018, the Chinese government passed a law that grants local and central law enforcement the ability to enter the premises of any internet service providers (ISPs) or internet service companies (read: VPN companies) to inspect and copy anything. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/2167240\/chinese-police-get-power-inspect-internet-service-providers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SCMP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reports that this new law tightens China\u2019s control of its cyberspace, which already features a Great Firewall. It goes on top of a law passed in 2016 that mandates <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/new-cybersecurity-law-companies-china-will-store-connecting-ip-address-six-months\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISPs store 6 months<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of IP address connection data and makes it very clear that your internet traffic is available to be monitored. To be clear, these Chinese datacenters are logging way more than just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com\/kb\/articles\/why-is-logging-metadata-bad\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">metadata<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 and this data is now available without a warrant or any semblance of rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chinese Government does more than try to log everything on their internet<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Travelers entering China\u2019s Xinjiang province from the west are often asked to install a surveillance app on their phone called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/xinjiang-china-police-set-checkpoints-ensure-government-mandated-jingwang-spyware-installed\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jingwang<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even in 2018, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/security\/comments\/8ofiiw\/chinese_border_police_installed_software_on_my\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">redditors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have reported being forced to install the Jingwang spyware when entering China. On the streets, local police have set up checkpoints to make sure that residents have the Jingwang spyware installed on their phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China\u2019s influence on mass surveillance in the Western world<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The craziest thing is that there are likely politicians in every country that are looking at this and thinking\u2026 wow that\u2019s a great idea. There are likely politicians that already have plans to introduce similar legislation once more news comes out of China about social credit scores, facial recognition, and forced spyware installation. That is a scary thought. On the heels of China getting bloodied first in the public perception of facial recognition as mass surveillance, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/in-chinas-footsteps-amazon-and-us-schools-normalize-automatic-facial-recognition-and-constant-surveillance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon and local schools<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are also moving the needle on this in the Western world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, some countries already have a version of this enacted. In countries like the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/private-internet-access-vpn-response-investigatory-powers-act\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United Kingdom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yarovaya_law\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/despite-promises-metadata-gathered-by-australian-mass-surveillance-may-be-made-available-to-civil-litigators-not-just-law-enforcement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/new-italian-data-retention-laws-forces-isps-store-phone-usage-internet-history-six-years\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Italy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and others, ISPs are mandated to store logs for anywhere from 6 months to a few years. This information is sometimes even available to government agencies that are not law enforcement related at all \u2013 and sometimes without a warrant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in October 2018, the Chinese government passed a law that grants local and central law enforcement the ability to enter the premises of any internet service providers (ISPs) or internet service companies (read: VPN companies) to inspect and copy anything. 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