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Covering geo-political news and current affairs across Asia

Tag: Surveillance State

Posted inTechnology

A gimlet eye on Xinjiang’s AI Pandora’s box

by Andrew Salmon July 4, 2021July 8, 2021

The long-held nightmare of machines controlling man, widely believed to exist only in science fiction, has come to digital life. It is not happening in the kind of futuristic urban megalopolis beloved by Sci-Fi movie directors – but on a dusty frontier in China. Its chronicler, American Geoffrey Cain, is a tech author. However, the […]

low angle shot on security camera with office building background, monitor the whole city from a height,shanghai china.
Posted inChina, United States, World

China’s surveillance system: a warning for US 

by Hunter Dorwart October 23, 2019February 18, 2020
Surveillance cameras. Photo: Getty Images
Posted inChina, World

Big brother is watching you in a nation of cameras

by Asia Times staff December 12, 2017February 18, 2020
Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn (C) in a sacred funeral procession for his father, late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in Bangkok on October 26, 2017.
Photo: AFP/Anthony Wallace
Posted inAT Finance, Thailand

How stable is post-cremation Thailand?

by Shawn W. Crispin December 6, 2017February 18, 2020

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