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China exports AI surveillance tech to over 60 countries: report

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 16 01:10 AM

Chinese companies have exported artificial intelligence surveillance technology to more than 60 countries including Iran, Myanmar, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and others with dismal human rights records, according to a report by a US think tank.   Read more »

Cuba allows police to snoop electronically

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 28 07:19 AM

HAVANA - Cuba has authorized state security agencies to use electronic surveillance without prior approval from a court, prompting criticism from  Read more »

Social media disinformation, surveillance growing: watchdog

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 05 11:11 PM

Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, in a worrisome trend for democracy, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday. Read more »

Xinjiang: The making of China's far west police state

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 09 03:09 PM

BEIJING, China - China's all-encompassing security crackdown in Xinjiang has turned the northwest region -- home to most of the country's ethnic Uighur population -- into a place activists describe as an open air prison.  Read more »

Cloak and dagger: Duterte's record-high 2020 intel budget

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 30 11:57 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte is asking Congress to authorize P8.28 billion of the government’s proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 on surveillance alone—the highest of his term. Read more »

Chinese cities most monitored in the world: report

Phoebe Zhang, South China Morning Post
Posted at Aug 20 10:01 AM

In a ranking based on the number of CCTV cameras per 1,000 people, China has 8 of the top 10 most surveilled cities in the world. The only two non-Chinese cities in the top 10 were London in sixth place and Atlanta in the US at No 10. Read more »

China says most people in Xinjiang camps have 'returned to society'

Michael Martina, Reuters
Posted at Jul 31 07:33 AM

BEIJING - Most people sent to mass detention centers in China's Xinjiang region have "returned to society", a senior official from the region said on Tuesday, but he declined to give an estimate of many have been held in recent years. Read more »

China's police state goes global, leaving refugees in fear

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 26 09:47 AM

Muslims who escaped China's crackdown in Xinjiang still live in fear, saying new homes abroad and even Western passports afford them no protection against a state-driven global campaign of intimidation. Read more »

Zamboanga City hopes Huawei can help solve crimes

Jewel Reyes, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 10:58 PM

ZAMBOANGA CITY - Local government officials in Zamboanga City are in high hopes crimes will be resolved faster now that it has improved its Security Surveillance Command Center with new surveillance cameras provided by Huawei Philippines.   Read more »

US to sell surveillance drones to Philippines, South China Sea allies

Mike Stone, Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 07:33 AM

WASHINGTON, United States - The Trump administration has moved ahead with a surveillance drone sale to 4 US allies in the South China Sea region as acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Washington will no longer "tiptoe" around Chinese behavior in Asia. Read more »

Xinjiang surveillance app targets legal, everyday behavior: rights group

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 02 09:19 AM

HONG KONG - Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in Xinjiang by labeling "completely lawful" behavior as suspicious, a Human Rights Watch report said Thursday. Read more »

Made in China, exported to the world: the surveillance state

Paul Mozur, Jonah M. Kessel and Melissa Chan, The New York Times
Updated as of Apr 26 12:35 PM

The squat gray building in Ecuador’s capital commands a sweeping view of the city’s sparkling sprawl, from the high-rises at the base of the Andean valley to the pastel neighborhoods that spill up its mountainsides. Read more »

Int'l lawyers allege they were watched, tailed by 'state agents'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 19 11:32 PM

A group of international lawyers said the harassment "appear to have the fingerprints of intimidation and reprisal by State agents." Read more »

China data leak exposes mass surveillance in Xinjiang

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 19 08:33 PM

A Chinese technology firm has compiled a range of personal information on 2.6 million people in Xinjiang -- from their ethnicity to locations -- according to a data leak highlighting the wide extent of surveillance in the restive region. Read more »

Taiwan steps up probe into surveillance by pro-China media on island

Yimou Lee and James Pomfret, Reuters
Posted at Jan 18 02:49 PM

TAIPEI/HONG KONG - Taiwan will step up its investigation of pro-Beijing newspapers accused by politicians on the self-ruled island of spreading fake news and surveillance activities that infringe national security, a security official said on Friday. Read more »

ACT official says he received death threat

Inday Espina-Varona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 12 12:50 AM

MANILA - The secretary-general of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers of the Philippines reported receiving a death threat Friday afternoon.   Read more »

Mga pasaway na pulis, sundalo ang dapat isailalim sa 'profiling' - Lacson

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 08 11:56 PM

Kabi-kabilang batikos ang inabot ng PNP sa ginawa umanong paniniktik sa Alliance of Concerned Teachers. Read more »

Palace defends intel hunt on leftist teachers

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 07 02:30 PM

MANILA - A Palace spokesman on Monday said there is nothing wrong with the Philippine National Police's reported surveillance of a left-leaning teachers' union. Read more »

Senate probes DILG, Chinese firm deal to install 12,000 CCTVs

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 17 02:18 PM

The Senate is set to look into a P20-billion CCTV deal between a state-owned Chinese firm and the Department of the Interior and Local Government.  Read more »

Mga inuugnay sa 'Red October', dumulog sa CHR

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 09 12:56 AM

Idinulog ng Bayan at iba pang grupo sa Commission on Human Rights ang umano'y harassment laban sa kanila. Read more »