Chinese police – Charm

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

Cs news7 months ago052 mins

BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate…

How the AP uncovered US big tech’s role in China’s digital police state

Cs news7 months ago08 mins

BEIJING (AP) — Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, the Associated Press has found. AP journalists spoke to more than 100 sources, scoured tens of thousands of documents, and obtained…