US EditionUS tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China: AP investigation
American tech companies sold billions in surveillance tools that enabled China to track and detain millions, including Uyghurs, fueling widespread human rights abuses, AP found.
- American tech companies contributed significantly to China's surveillance state, enabling human rights abuses, according to an Associated Press investigation.
- These companies sold billions of dollars in technology to the Chinese police and government despite warnings from the U.S. Congress.
- Technologies include AI systems that track and detain migrants and identify targets in conflicts, like the Israel-Hamas war.
- A Chinese defense contractor, Huadi, collaborated with IBM to create the 'Golden Shield,' used for censorship and targeting groups like Falun Gong.
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Tech from Silicon Valley has enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.
NEW – U.S. tech giants Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, and others helped build China’s “Golden Shield” surveillance system, using “predictive policing” to analyze texts, calls, and DNA to preemptively detain people deemed suspicious.
NEW – U.S. tech giants Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, and others helped build China’s "Golden Shield" surveillance system, using "predictive policing" to analyze texts, calls, and DNA to preemptively detain people deemed suspicious.https://t.co/iHkkMxy4EQ — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 9, 2025
US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China - The Boston Globe
An AP investigation reveals that US technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.
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US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
Associated Press surveys (1.2) show that US technology companies such as IBM, Dell, Cisco, Intel, NVIDIA, Oracle, Microsoft, HP, and Thermo Fisher Scientific have contributed to the construction of China's digital surveillance device, which has been described as the most
An Associated Press investigation report released on Tuesday (September 9) showed that the Chinese Communist Party is using American technology to strengthen its authoritarian rule and intensify its human rights persecution against mainland Chinese people.
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