An employee monitors the online traffic of Ctrip.com International Ltd. at the company's headquarters in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Ctrip is the world's No. 2 online agency by market value. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
China's Communist government has never shown much concern for the privacy of Chinese citizens. If you have something to hide, the thinking goes, we probably need to know it.
In one form or another, surveillance and monitoring have evolved into a well-honed form of social control. And as a result, neither companies nor consumers have traditionally had very high expectations for individual privacy.
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