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Title: US Tech Companies Enabled the Surveillance and Detention of Hundreds
of Thousands in China

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/1124...

An Associated Press investigation based on tens of thousands of leaked
documents revealed Tuesday that American technology companies designed and
built core components of China's surveillance apparatus over the past 25
years, selling billions of dollars in equipment to Chinese police and
government agencies despite warnings about human rights abuses. IBM partnered
with Chinese defense contractor Huadi in 2009 to develop predictive policing
systems for the "Golden Shield" project, AP reports, citing classified
government blueprints. The technology enabled mass detentions in Xinjiang,
where administrators assigned 100-point risk scores to Uyghurs with
deductions for growing beards or being aged 15-55. Dell promoted a laptop
with "all-race recognition" capabilities on its WeChat account in 2019.
Thermo Fisher Scientific marketed DNA kits as "designed" for ethnic
minorities including Uyghurs and Tibetans until August 2024. Oracle,
Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Intel, NVIDIA, and VMware sold geographic mapping
software, facial recognition systems, and cloud infrastructure to Chinese
police through the 2010s. The surveillance network tracks "key persons" whose
movements are restricted and monitored, with one estimate suggesting 55,000
to 110,000 people were placed under residential surveillance in the past
decade. China now has more surveillance cameras than the rest of the world
combined.

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