Many Zimbabweans fear their government could abuse citizens’ data to intimidate them. Before an election in 2018 party thugs forced people to hand over their registration slips, telling them these would reveal whom they voted for. The same thugs have in the past burned the homes of those who voted the wrong way.

  • poVoqA
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    101 year ago

    That reasoning might work for domestic use inside China (I disagree, but lets not argue about that here), but selling the technology to states like Zimbabwe, which clearly isn’t “communist” or in any other way going to use this tech for the common good is just atrocious. And yes, western states also sell surveillance equipment to dictatorships like Zimbabwe, and that is also atrocious.