A Chinese cybersecurity expert has revealed to DW details of China's new high-tech policing. From ski resort facial recognition to seats on a train, the system can track anyone and compile a "holistic profile."
  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    352·
    11 hours ago

    “In Western democracies, there are debates… In China, this debate doesn’t exist at all. The police and the Ministry of State Security just do whatever they want with relatively little oversight.”

    The US just does it anyways. At least as well as the Chinese. Most other countries do too. I’d wager oversight is piss poor everywhere and largely performative.

    • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.caEnglish
      191·
      10 hours ago

      It’s DW, Germany is notoriously hypocritical. Try and debate that Israel is an apartheid state or has been genociding Palestinians and see how far that goes.

    • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
      81·
      9 hours ago

      Yep, that’s the thing. In the West you have the freedom to say what you want. And the government is free to ignore what you say.