カテゴリー: Surveillance
Was Beijing trying to sabotage talks with the US, monitor the speed of its military response, or just test Joe Biden’s mettle?Now the Chinese balloon has been brought down in a puff of smoke and debris by a US air-launched missile, after perplexing Was…
Chinese surveillance manufacturer Hikvision has put in place tools to help police track protest activitiesChinese police can set up “alarms” for various protest activities using a software platform provided by Hikvision, a major Chinese camera and surv…
Campaigners concerned that ‘same racist technology used to repress Uyghurs is being marketed in Britain’ A Chinese security camera company has been advertising ethnicity recognition features to British and other European customers, even while it faces …
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authorsThis week, from 2019: Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity – but now the Chinese…
Thai government suspected of orchestrating hacking campaign using Israeli surveillance technologyThe Thai government is suspected of using Israeli surveillance technology against more than two dozen dissidents and activists who supported democratic ref…
Incentives aim to motivate the public as ‘threats’ from foreign intelligence agencies intensify, according to state mediaChinese citizens can get rewards of more than 100,000 yuan (£12,000/US$15,000) and special certificates for tip-offs on breaches of…
A report found the app that will be used to monitor athletes’ health and travel data has a ‘devastating’ encryption flawWith the Beijing Olympics just weeks away, concerns are mounting over a mandatory health app for competing athletes, after a new rep…
SenseTime raised $512m from non-US investors and recently debuted on the Hong Kong stock exchangeSenseTime, China’s largest facial recognition startup, has come under increasing scrutiny by the US government for its alleged role in the surveillance of …
Here are 20 articles that may have helped convince people to support the Guardian’s journalismThe Guardian benefited from hundreds of thousands of acts of support from digital readers in 2021 – almost one for every minute of the year. Here we look at t…
Tender document details plans for system that can compile files using 3,000 facial recognition camerasSecurity officials in one of China’s largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and inte…
Authorities using predictive policing and human surveillance on Muslims in Xinjiang, thinktank saysAuthorities in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are using predictive policing and human surveillance to gather “micro clues” about Uyghurs and empower neig…
China’s surveillance machine has grown with the aid of Chinese and international technology companies. But few have faced repercussionsAbdusalam Muhammad recalls local police interrogating him and his family in their home of Yakan in China’s Xinjiang U…
Activity more overt and reckless despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a haltChinese state-sponsored hacking is at record levels, western experts say, accusing Beijing of engaging in a form of low-level warfare that is escalati…
The Pegasus project shows we could all soon be ruled by states that know everything about us, while we know less and less about themHere in India, the summer of dying is quickly morphing into what looks very much like a summer of spying.The second wave…
Leak suggests Indian opposition leader among hundreds selected for possible surveillance by Modi governmentThe Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s most prominent political rival, the opposition figure Rahul Gandhi, was twice selected as a potential s…