{"id":31267,"date":"2021-02-01T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31267"},"modified":"2021-02-01T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:09:51","slug":"intel-agency-warns-of-threats-from-china-collecting-sensitive-us-health-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31267","title":{"rendered":"Intel agency warns of threats from China collecting sensitive US health data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) on Monday warned that Chinese efforts to target and steal sensitive U.S. health data, including DNA, have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) has collected large healthcare data sets from the U.S. and nations around the globe, through both legal and illegal means, for purposes only it can control,\u201d the NCSC wrote in a fact sheet. \u201cThe PRC\u2019s collection of healthcare data from America poses equally serious risks, not only to the privacy of Americans, but also to the economic and national security of the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agency noted that these efforts had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Chinese biotech group BGI offering COVID-19 testing kits to the majority of countries, and establishing 18 testing labs over the past six months alone, none in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The NCSC wrote that U.S. health data was an attractive target for the Chinese government due to the diversity of the population, and because of the nation\u2019s comparably lax safeguards for personal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Counterintelligence and Security Center&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31268,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31267\/revisions\/31268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}