Meng Jianzhu, head of the Communist Party’s central commission for political and legal affairs in charge of the country’s security and intelligence systems, reiterated the need to incorporate technology to strengthen the country’s surveillance by pledging to use artificial intelligence through machine learning, data mining and computer modeling to help stamp out risks to stability, the South China Morning Post reports. Jianzhu added that barriers should be removed from security services to enable the smooth integration for data sharing. Counterterrorism law expert at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Zunyou Zhou said, “China has no specific data protection law. The government can use personal data in any way they like, which could pose a huge threat to its citizens’ privacy.”
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