Chinese data-harvesting firm Zhenhua Data has links to the governing Chinese Communist Party and Peoples Liberation Army, ABC reports. The data also includes information of about 52,000 Americans, 10,000 Britons, 5,000 Canadians, 1,400 Malaysians, and 793 New Zealanders. Chinese data firm rebutted claims they had engaged in politically motivated spying, saying the data was simply collated using publicly available sources on the internet, as has long been done by people-finding firms.”]