China has built a huge surveillance state at home. It's now exporting that technology abroad, thanks to some of the country's largest firms.
as a "highly restrictive and discriminatory" law that China says is designed to combat extremism.
"I think the worse future could be these governments adopting these technologies and adding that arsenal to the existing ones for the control of people," Wang told CNBC.highlighted other concerns from China exporting its surveillance tech, including being able to undermine democracies, get an edge on new technologies and in military areas.way to both protect and expand its power," Hoffman said.
Bridges claimed to have his face scanned by the police force and argued there were no legal safeguards in place for the use of the tech. The judges in the case ruled against Liberty and Bridges, and said they were "satisfied that the current legal regime is adequate," and that the use of the technology did not violate the Human Rights Act.
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