> Is it more or less messed up than that a private corporation can and is willing to perform surveillance on foreign citizens on behalf of those citizens' gover

> Is it more or less messed up than that a private corporation can and is willing to perform surveillance on foreign citizens on behalf of those citizens' government that would be unacceptable anywhere else? It actually happens a lot more places than just China. The only reason its getting headlines now is because its Google. There are a TON of information security companies who deal with sketchy foreign governments to develop tools to spy on their own citizens. - Israeli company NSO helping the UAE spy on pro-democracy activist Ahmed Mansoor - BAE Systems actively shopping surveillance tools to countries like Algeria, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE during the Arab Spring. - Procera Networks who sold deep packet inspection tools to Turkey to spy on its citizens - Hacking Team's surveillance software was sold to the Ethiopian government (among others) to spy on journalists and other activists in their country. You also have Mitnick who threw his hat in the ring and said he has a team of hackers uncovering zero-day exploits that he hopes to sell to the highest bidder - even if the bidder is a repressive regime.