Chinese startups supported by Microsoft and Google incubator programs worked with police (restofworld.org)
from Joker@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 11:16
https://sh.itjust.works/post/28313550

Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided policing or censorship tools to Chinese law enforcement.

  • Two of the companies were selling censorship software or working with the police before they joined Microsoft’s long-running incubator program.
  • The vast majority of Chinese participants don’t have surveillance applications, and some programs were launched in a friendlier era in U.S.-China relations.
  • Startups’ technology can combat phone scams and find missing children, but software has also played a role in online censorship and surveilling populations.

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NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 12:28 next collapse

You should understand that Chinese people or companies have no choice there. It is not exactly a free world. As soon as they are asked by their authorities, they can only say yes.

(But it’s not quite different in Usa with their so called national security letters)

toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Nov 14:34 next collapse

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sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 19 Nov 17:01 collapse

Focus is on China but US is finding AI surveillance tech being deployed in Gaza and West Bank.

Foreign regimes are lining up to buy the tech once it is done with beta test.

Fake news barely touches this one tho..

Sure shepoor is a dumb bitch, fuck chinaman regime but never forget what our greatest ally is doing and we pay for it in cash and reputation.