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Chinese startups supported by Microsoft and Google incubator programs worked with police (restofworld.org)
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Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided policing or censorship tools to Chinese law enforcement.

  • Two of the companies were selling censorship software or working with the police before they joined Microsoft's long-running incubator program.
  • The vast majority of Chinese participants don't have surveillance applications, and some programs were launched in a friendlier era in U.S.-China relations.
  • Startups' technology can combat phone scams and find missing children, but software has also played a role in online censorship and surveilling populations.
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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

You should understand that Chinese people or companies have no choice there. It is not exactly a free world. As soon as they are asked by their authorities, they can only say yes.

(But it's not quite different in Usa with their so called national security letters)