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China's Police Deploy High-Tech Tools to Crush Covid Protests

Covid News LIVE Updates: Chinese police have deployed sophisticated surveillance tools in a push to stamp out a nationwide wave of unrest, using facial recognition software and location data to track down and detain protesters.

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China’s police have been using high-tech tools to crush the Covid protests. The public security bureau has installed facial recognition systems at train stations and airports, and this allows them to spot people who are wanted by the authorities.

The cameras are also being used to monitor people’s activities in public places such as shopping malls, parks, and food markets. They can also be used for surveillance of private residences.

China's Police Deploy High-Tech Tools to Crush Covid Protests

In China, the government has been cracking down on protests in recent years. They use a variety of methods to do so, including deploying high-tech tools to crush the protests.

The Chinese government has been using new and old technologies to crack down on protests. One of them is facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology is used extensively by law enforcement agencies in China for security purposes as well as for identifying and tracking criminals. Facial recognition software can identify people from their faces and it can also be used to identify people from video footage or still images. This technology has been deployed by the Chinese government for surveillance purposes at public places like shopping malls, airports, train stations, schools and entertainment venues such as theatres and cinemas. It is also used at protest sites to identify protesters who are wanted by the police or who are considered dangerous by authorities.

Chinese police have deployed sophisticated surveillance tools in a push to stamp out a nationwide wave of unrest, using facial recognition software and location data to track down and detain protesters. Frustration over prolonged Covid restrictions ...

Frustration over prolonged Covid restrictions has boiled over, triggering protests demanding an end to lockdowns and greater political freedoms at a scale unseen in decades.

As Beijing announced a crackdown against the protests, its vast security apparatus swung into gear, using state-of-the-art surveillance to track down activists, according to a human rights lawyer offering free legal advice to protesters.

"In Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, police have seemingly used very high-tech methods," said Wang Shengsheng, a lawyer based in the city of Zhengzhou.

"In other cities, it seems like they have relied on surveillance footage and facial recognition," she told AFP.

Beijing police may have used phone location data either captured from on-site scanners or Covid health codes scanned by people taking taxis to areas where protests took place, she said.

"Many callers from Beijing were confused as to why they were contacted by police when they genuinely just walked past the protest site and didn't take part," she added.

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China’s crackdown on covids is not only a problem for China, but also the world. The world has been watching China’s rapid economic development, and they want to replicate the same success.

The world has been watching China’s rapid economic development, and they want to replicate the same success. However, China's suppression of covids is not only a problem for China, but also the world.

The government's crackdown on covids is not just an issue in China; it has implications for other countries as well. The suppression of covids will have ripple effects that will be felt by both Chinese companies and foreign ones.

The current primacy of economic concerns, however, cannot forever disguise the fundamental political differences between the EU and China. Brussels will eventually need to face up to them, no matter how much it might prefer a business-as-usual relati.

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