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Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)
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Here is the report (pdf).

Serbian authorities have adopted invasive surveillance practices and facial recognition technology to monitor political opponents, civic activists and critical journalists, says a BIRN report entitled ‘Digital Surveillance in Serbia – A Threat to Human Rights?’, published on Friday.

Equipment from Chinese manufacturers, such as Dahua and Hickvision, predominates.

Serbia’s aspirations for EU membership mean that it faces pressure to adhere to EU standards on data protection and privacy as well as cybersecurity. However, Serbia has simultaneously strengthened ties with authoritarian countries, especially China and Russia.

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[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

our anti-crime precautions
their high-tech surveillance

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

isn't it funny how double standards work?

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That shady, in America these systems are used to "monitor criminals"

Serbia could learn something here IMHO

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait until Trump gets reelected, then the American "criminal monitoring" systems will be used to target political dissident too. Similar thing already happening in Hungary, except Orbán is currently forced to pretend he still a supporter of democracy.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago
  1. U missed sarcasm
  2. We don't need trump elected this shit started at the latest with patriot act

So we are already there... No need to worry about trump, dear ;)