Name: How China Trains the World’s Autocrats to Surveil Their People | NYT
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where technology can make their lives much easier.

into the most sophisticated censorship and surveillance

And halfway through that period, something changed.

Xi Jinping took power, and cameras started appearing —

They hang from traffic lights, intersections, crosswalks;

even inside your taxi or your apartment building.

These are, in fact, government surveillance cameras,

and there are over 200 million of them here.

It's all designed to make sure the Communist Party of China

Basically, they want to know what their citizens are doing

all the time, and their actions are being judged.

watching on the other end of these cameras.

But the idea is that one day soon, artificial intelligence

You might think, well, that's just China.

This is Ecuador's emergency response system,

The government peddles it as a crime fighting tool.

Ecuador has around 4,000 national security cameras

The cameras all feed into a few centralized rooms,

but it was installed by Chinese companies

The Chinese even trained the Ecuadoreans how to use it.

Reporter: “They're telling the public that this is for safety.

We went back, we can see what the surveillance looks like.

So this is, what, 30 people in a room surveilling society.”

Reporter: “Now my question, though, is:

To me, that number, 30, does not seem like a lot of people.”

a nationwide camera system might seem little,

but it's the deterrent effect of the cameras which

based on the fact that they know that they might be being

surveilled, and they don't know how that information

“Surveillance technology exporting this kind of

surveillance capabilities to a country like Ecuador

This is Edin, a global surveillance expert

I asked him, so what has China actually exported here?

“Well it secures our diplomatic relationship

of internet governorship and how our security

infrastructure is going to look like in the future.”

Chinese surveillance systems are increasingly

government institutions to regulate than others,

Turns out, the Chinese can help with that, too.

We know it started at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

This is where Ecuadorian officials first saw it.

This all happened under the former president

Rafael Correa, who was widely seen as an autocrat.

He took control of the courts and silenced the press.

Helping him each step of the way was money from China.

So, China got Ecuador's oil and Ecuador got things

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