china, dahua technology, hikvision, london, surveillance cameras, uyghur persecution
According to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests filed late last year, at least half of the London boroughs are using Chinese surveillance tech linked to abuses of the Uyghur Muslim minority in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Around two-thirds of the councils in London and the next 20 largest city councils in the UK ...
In the dystopian novel 1984, author George Orwell predicted a future where every action of a citizen is closely monitored by a totalitarian government. The Chinese Communist Party’s rule of China is a perfect example of such an administration. The Communist Party is covering China with a vast network of surveillance cameras and related tech ...
At one time, surveillance cameras were only fiction. The novel 1984 by George Orwell centers on the risks of repressive totalitarianism and government overreach within society. It was written in 1949 and set in an imagined future — 1984 — when much of the world had fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and ...
The Chinese government is rapidly integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its administration, but not in a good way. Instead of using AI for the advancement of its citizens, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is looking for ways to better profile and monitor selected communities. The Uyghur Muslim population of Xinjiang is the first community to ...