New graph db helps PRC gov identify dissidents

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9 years ago

So, the new [TigerGraph](http://www.tigergraph.com/) contains a demo (behind signup wall) called Social Graph, which uses a model of data that afaik only the Chinese government would have access to: tying everything to a person's identity including where they've slept and how they've traveled.

They then demonstrate a sample query on this dataset, called 'connection mining', identifying people who have enough data in common with a given person. Going by a [Datanami article](https://www.datanami.com/2017/09/19/tigergraph-emerges-native-parallel-graph-database/), their clients at least include some Chinese state-owned companies. If one add one and one though, Beijing might well be using this query to track dissidents by association.

This is a clickbait version of #15314127. Sorry.