Who would buy this?
How could anyone possibly make money off this data set?
I could understand if the Chinese government would pay for it to avoid embarrassment but making the sale public kinda voids that.
How could anyone possibly make money off this data set?
I could understand if the Chinese government would pay for it to avoid embarrassment but making the sale public kinda voids that.
What can you say publicly?
Foreign intelligence agencies for classic espionage. If you want to do blackmailing in china, such a DB would be a good start.
Otherwise, data brokers. Advertisement, financial credibility, trustworthines of buisness partners etc.
As for "data brokers. Advertisement, financial credibility, trustworthines of buisness partners etc.". Maybe. But these companies would turn themselves into criminals by using or purchasing this information.
"But these companies would turn themselves into criminals by using or purchasing this information."
Which is why they probably would not deal with the information gathering directly, but use a service of a data analyst company. When they do something illegal, nobody who contracted then did ever know anything. I think this game is played in china as well.
this data is only interesting to the low end of data brokers, advertisers and other scammers, hence the rather low price.
some guys at the top of the game are probably already doing this and have figured out how to both insulate themselves and launder/hide data they horde.