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China warns data leaks from wind towers could threaten national security
Companies with ties to foreign spies are building meteorological towers and sending sensitive information abroad, according to CCTV.
Chinese state security authorities have raised alarms about meteorological towers that collect data on wind speed, temperature and air pressure. On Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV shared cases obtained from the ministry, reporting that “a few companies” with ties to foreign spy agencies had “secretly infiltrated areas” around the country’s classified locations under the guise of building such towers – tall structures that measure meteorological data such as wind speed, direction, temperature and air pressure. In another case described only in vague terms, a wind measurement tower near a scientific research base came under suspicion out of fears it may have illegally collected and sent data abroad, according to the report.
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