☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻“For many, such #technology has offered convenience and safety, seamlessly woven into the backdrop of their lives. But for some, it’s become an intrusive form of #StateControl.
Associated Press investigations have found that such surveillance systems in #China were to a large degree designed and built by #American #companies, playing a far greater role in enabling #HumanRights abuses than previously known.”
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Photo essay shows how AP photographers captured infrared technology used in surveillance
When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of your face, your body, your license plate lettering.