Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs contend there is a network inside China's "Great Firewall" designed to collect information on hundreds of millions of individuals everyday in addition to private and state-owned organizations designed to exploit such data, CBC reports. The lab has used popular messaging apps like WeChat, which serves more than 800 million people in China. Citizen Lab's Ronald Deibert said Chinese authorities "have a wealth of data at their disposal about what individuals are doing at a micro level in ways they never had before." He adds, "What the government has managed to do, I think quite successfully, is download the controls to the private sector, to make it incumbent upon them to police their own networks." 
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