Inside China’s Surveillance State

The Chinese Communist Party is crafting a nightmare surveillance state โ€“ flooding the country with an ocean of surveillance cameras which now invade the homes of minorities.

By 2020 China will be home to an estimated 626 million, a 3100 per cent increase in just three years.

โ€œBased on the countryโ€™s current population of 1.4 billion people, that would mean nearly one camera for every two people,โ€ Comparitech said of its study.

โ€œAlthough this projection might seem vast, it may be a fraction of the actual number.

โ€œWhen combined with the countryโ€™s advances in facial recognition technology, the privacy situation for its citizens is worrisome.โ€

The latest victims are members of the members of the Tujia and Miao tribes in Chinaโ€™s south-west province of Guizhou where a facial-recognition program called the Tongren City Security Facial Recognition System for Building Controls has been installed in residential buildings.

Robert Potter, a former cybersecurity contractor who worked with Chinese activists to release a database of this intrusive surveillance, said every one of the 110,000 profiles in the system had their privacy breached.

Chinese citizens might not know it yet, but the government is expanding intrusive surveillance across the country from public areas, like streets and inside trains, into peopleโ€™s homes – threatening the privacy and freedom of an entire country.

โ€œThis is an extension of that same technology to control peopleโ€™s entry and exit to their homes,โ€ he told Sky news.

โ€œIt also has direct application on the ability of the Chinese Communist Party to enforce norms in peopleโ€™s private spaces.โ€

Fulbright University’s Christopher Balding said โ€œthis seems to imply that Beijing is essentially extending its Xinjiang-level crackdown and control to minorities, to religious groups, to basically anything that is a threat to the CCP.โ€

โ€œItโ€™s pretty much all religions that arenโ€™t Chinese Buddhist, and fundamentally itโ€™s about individuals that they would deem that would be less than loyal to the Chinese Communist Party.โ€

This surveillance transformation threatens the freedom of all of China, and if itโ€™s left unchecked its oppressive wares could spread across the world โ€“ a concern University of Texas Associate Professor Sheena Greitens has shone a light on.

โ€œMy recent research has shown that China has exported surveillance technology platforms to over 80 countries worldwide,โ€ she said.

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