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It's never been so easy to be a spy 📸 | Following the Yuan

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The business behind #Maskpark, China’s largest known digital sex crime ring — and why it might harm the country’s plummeting birth rate and continue to depress the hotel industry.

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Aug 02, 2025
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It takes less than $150 to customize a miniature camera into your phone, glasses, water bottle, lighter, remote control, or sneakers. Common spy equipments have never been so accessible, thanks to China’s manufacturing power in consumer electronics.

They could be installed on any objects, and appear everywhere in China — public transportation, hotel room…

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