https://theintercept.com/2018/08/28/google-china-censorship-plan-human-rights/
represents “an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights” and could result in the company “directly contributing to, or [becoming] complicit in, human rights violations.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/technology/huawei-banned-australia-5g.html
Companies that “are likely to be subject to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government” pose unacceptable security risks, the ministers said.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611815/who-needs-democracy-when-you-have-data/
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinese-police-are-spying-on-uighurson-american-soil
threatening to detain their relatives if they do not provide personal and identifying information to Chinese police.
https://www.cnet.com/news/china-launches-high-tech-bird-drones-to-watch-over-its-citizens/
They’re called Doves and they do not come in peace.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/technology/facebook-device-partnerships-china.html
gave private access to some user data to Huawei, … flagged as a national security threat
“… it is like there are a pair of mystery eyes constantly watching me, and I don’t dare let my mind wander.”
China could order its manufacturers to create backdoors for spying in their devices
Despite their dystopian appearance, the group’s six mining farms encompass eight petahashes per second of computing power, whose brute force as of October accounted for 3 percent of the entire Bitcoin network.
