> AIS is being managed by a Beijing based company. What? No. AIS is a technical standard that allows ships to broadcast their position to avoid colliding with

> AIS is being managed by a Beijing based company. What? No. AIS is a technical standard that allows ships to broadcast their position to avoid colliding with other ships in the area, it's not managed by any one company. The companies that the article is talking about have covered China with a network of receivers recording the AIS transmissions of all ships, and until recently they were selling access to that surveillance feed to other companies who integrate data from multiple countries to enable worldwide tracking. > In year 2018 they tryed to manipulate ships positions shifting them to another position (and did that). That wasn't manipulation at the level of AIS recording companies; the ships themselves were misreporting their position because something was interfering with their GPS signal.