The database collects information on nearly 700 U.S. citizens entering China from Shanghai Pudong Airport (pictured) from 2018 to 2020.
The New York Post obtained a watch list from the Shanghai Public Security Monitoring Database that identifies 697 U.S. citizens, including corporate executives from Apple, Microsoft, GE Healthcare, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Merrill Lynch; Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti Douglas, an employee of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs, a female documentary filmmaker, and researchers or professors at U.S. universities are also on the watch list, which even includes children. Their names, dates of birth and passport numbers are recorded in detail. Their data was collected when they entered or transited through mainland China from Pudong International Airport in 2018 and 2020.
American singer-songwriter Yashanti Douglas’ personal information is on a secret watch list that marks her entry into China in August 2018. (Douglas ins image/photo date unknown)
Also earlier, Australian media reported that the watch list on the Shanghai Public Security Monitoring Database also included the personal information of 161 Australian citizens and 150 British citizens.
Australian Values Coalition member Dr. Zhang Xiaogang, a computer science major, questioned the purpose of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau’s collection of information on overseas citizens, saying that it could not be ruled out that the Chinese side might be luring people on the watch list to help China’s foreign infiltration and expansion strategy. Zhang Xiaogang called on democratic countries to quickly curb the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance practices.
Zhang Xiaogang said: “Some of these lists are important figures, including the former head of Australia’s intelligence service. Based on this data, the CCP could lay some traps, threats and inducements on some of these people to force you to serve their continuous expansion, and then through you to influence the people they want to influence. The incident itself reflects that the Chinese Communist dictatorship keeps collecting all kinds of data so that they can control the whole world in the future. Countries must keep the Chinese Communist Party in check.
A source close to the system, who goes by the pseudonym Song Lin, told the station that in addition to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau collecting information on foreign citizens entering the country, in recent years the CCP has been hacking into overseas websites to obtain confidential and large amounts of information on citizens through state security and support forces (whose main responsibility is intelligence acquisition). He said the Chinese Communist Party is building a high-tech totalitarian power for the whole world.
Song Lin said: What has been exposed is that the Public Security Bureau obtains personal information of foreign citizens through entry and exit records. The technical level of the Public Security Bureau is far inferior to that of the State Security and Support Forces, and they have launched large-scale hacking to hack into overseas servers to obtain information of overseas users, and there is something like Huawei and Shake, which collect overseas information through spy software, and the CCP wants to rule the world through high-tech totalitarianism.
Late last month, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation revealed that a security database of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB) was hacked late last year, resulting in the uncovering of more than 1.1 million documents and surveillance records of the PSB, revealing that the PSB had included the passport information and photos of more than 5,000 foreign nationals in its database since 2017.
The leaked surveillance data also revealed that the Shanghai PSB monitored 25,000 Xinjiang Uyghurs, political dissidents and others, and that some 8,000 Uyghurs were included in the “suspected terrorist” list.
Samantha Hoffman, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told Australian media earlier that she had come across a similar Chinese public security database in her research. Other cities and provinces in mainland China are also developing or conducting the same kind of surveillance as the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.
Information from the database, originally obtained by Australian cybersecurity firm Internet2.0, reportedly said the records provide a useful basis for understanding how China uses technology to build surveillance systems and how it uses data as a means of control, suggesting that the Communist Party is seeking to control all data within its law enforcement and political control.
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