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Photo by Ng Han Guan: Yang Guoliang shows a March 12, 2024, photo of him lying in a hospital bed after police beat him with bricks, as he sits in his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025

Part of the AP's photo essay: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

More information available in accompanying article: US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And we knew that shit was happening there, just didn't have confirmation it was Larry Fucking Ellison and Bill Gates enabling it.

And since it was onebigassholenamedlarryellison et.al. to me that means it's already here in the west, we just don't have confirmation yet.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I try to share this whenever I can

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/19/live-facial-recognition-police-new-orleans/

Police have allegedly stopped using it bc they were in violation of city law. The private company that is ~~definitely related~~ completely unrelated to Palantir continues to use them and the police are pushing for a new ordinance which would allow them to legally keep using them while claiming this is no different than any other surveillance in the U.S.

Except it's the first of its kind in the U.S. real time tracking and monitoring network surveillance system using facial recognition tech. It notifies police of your movements in realtime. The cameras are everywhere and inescapable.

Our roads are crumbling, we have a boil water advisory every other week, and parts of the city still flood every time it rains hard.

Explain to me why we can't have those issues fixed, but we have the privilege of being the first city to adopt and test out this system. Especially after we had the privilege of being one of the first cities Palantir secretly tested their predictive policing tech.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This shit happens in the US but fake news cpver it differently

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This stuff gets even less attention in China. State censorship is even stronger there.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Man complains about 'excessive monitoring' after vicious assult on police who were forced to use bricks as improved weapons to protect themselves after being defunded"

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -5 points 6 days ago

You are an artisté!

Get this person to NYT quickly... They need these skills