SCOOP: The Oracle TikTok deal was supposed to prevent TikTok from passing data to Chinese police. Turns out Oracle has been marketing its own data analytics software to...Chinese police.

a.k.a. the weirdest China tech story I’ve ever written 1/1

I found dozens of Oracle documents detailing how Chinese police can use the company's analytics software to mine databases containing DNA, vehicle records, facial recognition images, hotel registrations, and lists of drug users. 2/2

Oracle documents give detailed "use cases" that include screenshots of the software interface, suggesting that two provincial police departments (Liaoning and Shanxi) actually used Oracle tech to mine social and other data. One such case was presented at Oracle’s HQ in 2018. 3/3

Oracle has accused me of obtaining “Chinese domain” documents from one of their competitors, so let me be clear on where I found these documents: https://t.co/vavs1N8M9P, using a little search engine called Google. 4/4

Different employees authored the Oracle documents, but some are the work of a former Singaporean cop turned Oracle senior employee. For two years while at the company, his bios say that he was a visiting researcher at China’s leading policing academy. 5/5