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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dake Kang and Yael Grauer

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

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

The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks.

By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they’ll do.

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