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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ng Han Guan,David Goldman and Dake Kang

PHOTO ESSAY: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

China US Digital Cage Photo Essay - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

China runs the largest digital surveillance apparatus on earth. An Associated Press investigation has found that American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

Many in China hardly notice the country’s millions of cameras. But for the tens of thousands under watch, it’s an invisible digital cage, tracking and restricting their movement.

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