Leaked Files Show a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall’s Censorship Technology

Two Major Leaks Illuminate Censorship and Surveillance Sales Into and From China

New reporting on two large collections of leaked documents sheds light on the trade of surveillance and censorship technology into and out of China. One, by Dake Kang and Yael Grauer for the Associated Press, builds on an initial collection of thousands of documents leaked from Chinese surveillance company Landasoft to demonstrate how "partnership between American firms and the Chinese police laid the groundwork for China’s digital surveillance …

Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World

Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.

Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology

Geedge Networks is providing censorship capabilities to foreign governments, including those in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan

Chinese Firm Leaks Reveal Export of Great Firewall Tech to Repressive Regimes

In the shadowy world of global digital surveillance, a recent leak has exposed how Chinese technology is quietly reshaping internet control beyond its borders. A trove of over 100,000 internal documents from Geedge Networks, a Beijing-based firm founded in 2018, reveals the company’s role in exporting sophisticated censorship tools modeled after China’s infamous Great Firewall. These systems, sold to governments in at least four countries across…