AP Story on US Tech Companies Supplying Chinese Surveillance
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- American tech companies, especially IBM, played a significant role in designing and building China's surveillance state, enabling human rights abuses.
- AP's investigation involved over 100 sources, tens of thousands of documents, and major leaks, including classified Chinese government documents and internal emails from surveillance firms.
- Leaked documents revealed that Landasoft, a Chinese surveillance company and former IBM partner, developed software used in Xinjiang's mass detention campaign targeting Uyghurs.
- IBM and other American companies directly pitched their technology to Chinese police for controlling citizens, despite claiming compliance with laws and export controls.
- AP's evidence showed how American firms introduced 'predictive policing' to China, allowing preemptive detentions based on data mining from various sources.
- Chinese police and state-owned defense contractors collaborated with American tech firms to create the world's largest and most sophisticated digital surveillance state.