A US academic has revealed the existence of 2.4-million-person database he says is compiled by a Chinese company known to supply intelligence, military, and security agencies. The academic alleges the purpose of the database is enabling overseas influence operations to be conducted against prominent or influential people outside China.
That company is Shenzhen Zhenhua and the academic is Chris Balding, an associate professor at the Fulbright University Vietnam.
Balding and security researcher Robert Potter have co-authored a paper [PDF] claiming the trove is known as the “Overseas Key Information Database” (OKIDB) and that 10 to 20 per cent of it appears not to have come from any public source of information. The co-authors do not rule out hacking as the source of that data, but also say ..
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