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Are China's Surveillance Exports Turning Nations Into Digital Dictatorships?
Are China's Surveillance Exports Turning Nations Into Digital Dictatorships?
Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times,
Is Beijing hoping to turn other authoritarian societies into digital Chinas?
China’s rise as the world’s leading exporter of surveillance technology is yielding some disturbing results. Beijing’s surveillance export packages comprise an entire technological architecture that can give governments an unprecedented ability to see, identify, and track their populations.
Those technologies include cameras, artificial intelligence, telecommunications networks, cloud computing, facial recognition, license-plate recognition, and centralized command systems. Many mid-sized countries are becoming or are already customers.
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