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The National Counterintelligence and Security Center is calling attention to China's ongoing efforts to collect DNA data sets and other sensitive health data of Americans through hacking and other methods.
The collection of PII, personal health information and large genomic data sets gives China vast opportunities to precisely target individuals in foreign governments, private industries or other sectors for surveillance, manipulation or extortion, the NCSC warns.
The NCSC alert comes on the heels of a 60 Minutes CBS television segment Sunday featuring William Evanina, the former director of the NCSC, who estimated that 80% of American adults have had their personally identifiable information “stolen” by China.