The investigator, Peter Humphrey, and his American wife Yu Yingzeng werefound guilty of illegally acquiring personal information of Chinese nationals, an offense the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said on its official
microblog account could warrant a sentence of up to three years in prison.
An October 2016 article on the official
microblog recruitment
account of tech company Tencent was even blunter, quoting a male employee as saying, «The reason I joined Tencent originated from a primal impulse.