Chinese Data Breach Exposes ‘Breed Ready’ Status of Almost 2M Women

China’s population challenge

In a subsequent tweet, Gevers referred to an Economist article, ‘a shortage of brides in China is causing major social shifts’, which claims that China is missing some 60 million women as a result of the country’s one-child policy, which was introduced in 1979 and has consequently bent “society out of shape” given the preference for male children who were considered better able to support their parents in old age. And so, as the BBC explained in December, “in the next 10 years, the number of Chinese women aged 23-30 will decrease by 40%, a huge drop in this child-bearing age group… The declining birth rate is now one of the most talked-about topics across China – and there’s a real sense of crisis. Securing the surveillance state

According to Gevers, China is second only to the U.S. in the number of open databases of this kind that can be found by trawling online.

Source: www.forbes.com