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• @paulmozur Paul Mozur on x

  China is building a new modern marvel. It's not a dam or a high speed rail, it's the most sophisticated domestic surveillance system in the world. The scale of data collection is staggering. No biometric frontier is neglected. This is how it works: https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @paulmozur @paulmozur on x

  China's first internet-age innovation was the Great Firewall that tamed the internet. Many have come since. This project is perhaps most important. The goal is to use technology to gain a more perfect knowledge and control over people. They are succeeding. https://www.nytimes.com…

• @chinafile @chinafile on x

  This new video from the Visual Investigations team @nytimes outlines the current capabilities and future ambitions of China's surveillance systems. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  DNA, iris scans and voice prints are being collected indiscriminately from people with no known connection to crime. In the city of Zhongshan, the police wanted devices to record audio in public from 300 to 600 feet around cameras and analyze voice prints. https://www.nytimes.com…

• @meta_lab @meta_lab on x

  NYT (@muyixiao, @paulmozur, et al.) investigate the @ChinaFile CCGP procurement dataset (100k notices of 17 million+) to map PRC's increasingly integrated #surveillance system of systems (facial, voice, iris, and DNA biometrics; & IMSI 'electric fences'): https://www.nytimes.com/…

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  China is using phone trackers to link people's digital lives to their physical movements. In one case, the documents revealed that the police from a county in Guangdong bought trackers in hopes of detecting a Uyghur-to-Chinese dictionary app on phones. https://www.nytimes.com/...…

• @paulmozur @paulmozur on x

  Our video is based on 1000s of government bidding documents. There are many takeaways, I'll run through a few. The first, is just how meticulous police are in deciding what goes where. Camera placements are thought out meticulously. Police point precisely to locations and angles.…

• @rprose Scott Rose on x

  Coming soon to a moderately less authoritarian state near you https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @paulmozur @paulmozur on x

  Cameras go in hotel and hospital lobbies. In Fujian a Sheraton gave police access to the cameras INSIDE its hotel. Likely many other international hotels do too. With China boasting half of the world's one billion cameras, data collection can be immense. https://www.nytimes.com/.…

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  interesting investigation into China's surveillance capabilities based on government bidding documents. though it seems right now the gov is obsessed on collecting as much data as possible - dna, voiceprints, etc - without being able to connect/analyze it https://www.nytimes.com/…