Beijing’s Big Brother Tech Needs African Faces
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/24/beijings-big-brother-tech-needs-african-faces
Zimbabwe is signing up for China’s surveillance state, but its citizens will pay the price. Daily life in China is gated by security technology, from the body scanners and X-ray machines at every urban metro station to the demand for ID numbers on social media platforms so that dangerous speech can be traced and punished. Technologies once seen as potentially empowering the public have become tools for an increasingly dictatorial government—tools that Beijing is now determined to sell to the (...)
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