Researchers say the massive collection of information is being used as a “psychological warfare” tool to manipulate public opinion in Australia.
“The data was crawled from such well known platforms as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as well as others,” a“In addition to personal information, they logged information on posts, likes, and retweets. This allowed for a wide variety of relationship and key person targeting.” Researchers found that, once the company had created a “profile” from the data, including a photo taken from public sites the targets maintained accounts on such as Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, it was stored on publicly available Chinese servers with links for each individual.
They say it is also possible for China even in individualised meetings be able to craft messaging or target the individuals they deem necessary to target.
Why are you allowing W.H.O to collect Australias covid testing data?
Is this news?
Just as well the PM allocated Amazon to store Australian valuable citizen info via the COVID19 App then?
Social media, governments, advertisers, political groups, banks, insurance, marketing & companies specialise collecting & monetise data for resale ...ALL DO IT , not security problem Collecting freely available data on people & companies is called 'open source data collection'
Wouldn’t get very much exciting info from me except animal videos 😂
slackbastard Isn’t this exactly what Cambridge Analytica did - and they were always about manipulation, not marketing - and everyone ignored it?
slackbastard Have you heard of Google? Pretty big, I've heard....
If this is true, it’s really scary🥺
mules_m ...so when are we closing the Confucius institutes as a start? Apparently similar methods are being employed by the Democrats against Republicans, using data patterns for targeted propaganda campaigns! Look up Lara Logan!
Song 'Welcome to the Family' Casper Wish our Government ran less like a media/mafia family. Pease share
Oh yeah its not like the Five Eyes countries (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) spy on ALL of their citizens and share the data between their intelligence communities...
You mean 35,000 librals are being spied on .
SayNoToSino AustraliaGov This is shocking. Kick the chinese out forever... MomentsAU AustraliaNews2U AustraliaNewsGA AustraliaNews2 targetausnews KRuddMP RebelWilson Tim_Cahill larryemdur scottdools BoycottChina NeverTrustChina
Yes everyday we play the USA soundtrack as we are the deputy sheriff in the region. The more successful demonising China the more likelihood we end up in a proxy war with China fools in Australia don’t realise the Missiles from China will land in Australia not USA
no doubt this will be the an issue for the states to deal with because it's somehow their fault, hey Scummy?
If you do not know the work of CyrusAParsa1, from The A.I. Organization, now is the time to learn about smart tech and where it's taking us. This is small potatoes compared to the big picture.
They can collect all the crap data they want off me ha ha ..... Good luck trying to profile that !
Continue to lie, Australia! What good does it bring to Australia and its people by such blatant lies? On the other hand if you are sure, don’t just bark in the news, go ahead, chop off your relationship with China immediately, don’t act like a coward!!
thea_ceo Nope sorry. I think the under fire parts of U.S intelligence agencies are shifting blame. Shadow Net was the technology abused in the 2016 U.S elections.
That's nothing. ScottMorrisonMP and the LNP used Cambridge Analytica to spy and collect your data to use in targeted political advertising.
ozhomeschool Not surprising.
Not all Chinese are bad! Just the CCP
Plenty of CCP bots on here, they usually have a 💧 in their handle.
Seriously, what nation isn't datamining... A more interesting story would be an exposé of the extent of this sort of state backed data gathering. Echelon would be in top.
Well then we better all stop going into the internet and start just posting letters again. Not hard to fix... Lazy cunts
another distraction from morrison as we sink to depression with millions out of work
I don't want to hear Dutton complaining about this.
all social media platforms collect data from their billions of users and it's been proven that FB and Google alike shared those data with US govt. And that's fine by Aussies? stop this blame China BS. Oz has long been infiltrated by US & we haven't seen u say a word Murdoch
Lol. It's nothing if to compare to what Israel's got on us... Looks like the real human's enemy Jewry wants to concentrate people's attention on the 1 jew-hater - China.
Dutton fail.
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Last month Dutton wanted Australians that didn’t hand over their passwords sent to prison... but I’m meant to be worried about China?
So latterly I’ve had both my phones receive these strange voicemails which appear to be in Mandatin or Cantonese whichever I don’t know it’s pretty spooky with some eerie propaganda happy as Larry background music to go, pretty odd and only since the ccp virus outbreak
Lmao only boomers get manipulated like that
ozhomeschool Too late , already in bed with the CCP
CalemJohnSmith seen this?
Meh, 35,000 is that all. Didn't the RMS in NSW have 160 odd thousand exposed last week? Wasn't proved to be China? Doesn't fit the narrative? If our private info isn't secure, shouldn't we go back to paper? Or hire some decent nerds 2 secure our info? Our fault not theirs.
Another distraction akin to LookOverTheir ScottyFromMarketing
Don't forget about this chump, and his cronies, hacking phones. Doesn't garner much trust in the rest of his media.
oh well better sell off some more farms and water rights to them it was only a lil bit of psychological warefare i mean come on.
and Australia doesn't do the same!
and DanielAndrewsMP has put in the hardware to help it happen, right Dan ? 👍
Given this PM is as intellectually gifted as a glass of maggots, the Chinese will have an uphill battle to activate his blather-brain. But if we're talking Dutton, the Chinese may make enormous improvements. At least, it could not make him any worse.
This is news?
Xi is a pervert and Peeping Pooh Bear.
Your daily reminder that Rupert Murdoch wants full spectrum control over Australian media so he can stir up war with China.
Darwin town council has bought tech facial recognition for strong cities programs total unnecessary and un-Australian who Allowed this just like other things NT has gone and done behind Australians backs with China also question Victoria
And Australia don’t spy on anyone 🙄
Of course we need to believe the CCP....
Dan would be loving this. IStandWithDan DictatorDan
Thank God we are finally taking the Chinese threat seriously. If Biden should be successful in America this threat will be enhanced by Joe offering a more 'conciliatory' policy.
Though the report is a piece of bullshit, many ppl still bought it.
China , go after our dishonest politicians but leave the Australian people out of it. auspol
hahahahah yeah right ...... we are all spied on no secretes anymore
China should be able to see this
Belt and road
omg. wake up. this type of intelligence gathering has been around for decades worldwide.
This is no surprise. If any government wasn’t aware of this I’d be v surprised. Even typing the name of that country or key words they’re interested in could be enough for your details to be stored & used against you. It’s safer to never travel to that place - you’ll be tracked.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram doing exactly the same. That’s okay though?
Big brother doesn't like being watched. How do they think the rest of the country feels when we are being watched?
Careful what you wish for!
Australia sold out many years ago. Remember when Rudd was out infront of the nation showing off his mandarin skills?
Wow
Let’s fight em I reckon.. Never liked em..
With so many weak leaders our vulnerabilities are exposed. What is China’s long term objective?
Guess who’s installed TikTok before. 😂
Raise your hand if you're surprised
TF! 😳
sapphirelotus well they will know that we are awake now. Not taking pedo pollies or chinga commies owning our stuff anymore
Did China get this message from all of us
Wake up Australia. Protect your country and distance yourself from China.
AnonymousSage1 See how this works...blame other countries for what you are doing, e.g., '5 Eyes'. Distract & deceive.
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