China
Beijing citizens criticize Covid surveillance devices
Collecting data every five minutes.
Bill Gates tells governments to invest in technologies for “payment and ID systems”
More central control.
China says only those with a qualification can post online about topics such as health and law
Extreme speech restrictions.
Big Tech silenced the lab leak theory. But now the WHO chief reportedly believes it.
The problem with platforms censoring so-called “conspiracies.”
Shanghai lockdowns increase market for invasive medical surveillance tech
A security company expects a big uptick in sales.
Rights groups demand “speech offenses” are excluded from UN cybercrime treaty
Pushing back against threats to free speech.
China’s censorship is hindering open-source software movements
The government is forcing a manual review of all projects.
Alibaba President boasts about tech to monitor people’s travel, consumption, and more to create a “climate” credit score
Promoting the dystopian tech at Davos.
Microsoft’s censorship for China is drifting into the US, report alleges
Chinese political names in Chinese characters typed into Bing were censored in the US, a report found.
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