Name: How Microsoft Helped Build China’s Nightmare Surveillance | China Uncensored
Uploaded: 2021-05-27T15:09:01.000Z
Duration: 14 min 25 s
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China is the largest police state in the world.

It uses surveillance to go after dissidents and minorities.

And who helped them build that surveillance?

Microsoft and other American tech companies!

the world's most advanced systems of mass surveillance.

And this is the laboratory where the Chinese regime

home to a mostly Muslim ethnic Uighur population.

and blood samples from most Xinjiang residents.

It's the dystopian nightmare everyone warned us about!

But we here in America didn't simply sit idle

US tech companies knowingly worked with the Chinese military,

as well as with private Chinese companies

contracted to do work for the Chinese government.

The problem is what's called dual-use technology—

that has both civilian and military applications.

“U.S. Congress and government officials

have yet to call for a review of the extent of

U.S. investment and research partnership entanglements.”

They said there's a need for “public regulation

According to a report last week in the Financial Times,

“Microsoft has worked with a Chinese military-run

university on artificial intelligence research

that could be used for surveillance and censorship.”

Over the course of a few months last year,

National University of Defense Technology.

That university is controlled by China's top military body,

and also the military symbol in its logo?

and being surprised when they have burgers.

One paper that Microsoft worked on describes

“a new AI method to recreate detailed environmental maps

which experts say could have clear applications

Because that's the very same kind of technology

they're using in Xinjiang to track the Uighurs!

How was Microsoft to know that the military university

would want to use it for military applications?

Now US lawmakers are calling out Microsoft for what they've done.

says “American companies need to understand that

doing business in China carries significant and deepening risks.

by the Chinese Communist party for espionage,

American companies are increasingly at risk

of boosting the Chinese Communist Party's

Senator Marco Rubio said Microsoft is complicit

in the Chinese regime's human rights abuses.

“It is deeply disturbing that an American company

would be actively working with the Chinese military

to further build up the government's surveillance network

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