China's surveillance is always so blatant and public, they don't bother trying to hide it like America (which is analogous to political corruption in both countries).
When the artist Ai Weiwei had his email account compromised by the state, they simply logged into his email webmail UI and forwarded a copy of his emails to a 3rd party email address. They didn't even bother intercepting his email at the network or service provider level.
Edit: > "Apple increased the encryption aspects on the phone allegedly to prevent snooping from the NSA. However, this increased encryption would also prevent the Chinese authorities from snooping on Apple user data."
It's a shame articles keep confusing Apple's harddisk encryption with network data encryption. :\
When the artist Ai Weiwei had his email account compromised by the state, they simply logged into his email webmail UI and forwarded a copy of his emails to a 3rd party email address. They didn't even bother intercepting his email at the network or service provider level.
Edit: > "Apple increased the encryption aspects on the phone allegedly to prevent snooping from the NSA. However, this increased encryption would also prevent the Chinese authorities from snooping on Apple user data."
It's a shame articles keep confusing Apple's harddisk encryption with network data encryption. :\