Internet freedom company Dynamic Internet Technology has identified 193 developers behind the recent leak of 100,000 documents that shed light into how China is exporting mass surveillance and censorship tools to authoritarian clients.
The documents originated from Chinese company Geedge Networks and MESA laboratory, a research institute under the state-controlled Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Developers referenced the Great Firewall that the Chinese communist regime uses to censor the internet in China, but the project that was leaked deals with commercial sales of such technology to other clients.
The documents revealed that Geedge has sold technology used to suppress citizens to the governments of Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Burma, Xinjiang, and at least one other unknown government….