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here in this shanghai surveillance
center no resident goes unwatched
hundreds of millions of cameras are
installed all over
china we have algorithms that
automatically recognize certain
behaviors if someone isn't wearing a
mask for example we immediately detect
this wrongdoing
no one can escape the camera's gaze even
when taking out the trash
technological advancements in china
affect germany too
chinese corporations have long been
amassing troves of user data
i don't have control over where my data
is sent whether it's to the us china or
wherever
modern technology has its advantages
from cashless payment to
internet-equipped cars
we're heading full throttle into a
high-tech future
but at what cost
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the family embraces all the latest tech
the world's evolving and father chenwei
believes it's best to keep up wow
the chinese version of tiktok is a
favorite source of entertainment for 10
year old man faye and her parents
we watch videos of friends
that was just a friend's young daughter
for example
they film cute videos of their children
and upload them
it gives us things to talk about
manfei is content using the tiny screen
on her smartwatch many of her classmates
have such devices rather than
smartphones she can use her watch to
make phone calls and even purchases
what does she
do
when my parents aren't around and i
can't remember the homework
i can double check what was said in our
class chat
i can also post what i do day to day in
the chat and take pictures
charlie onion
what is your name my name is miffy
like many other children in middle to
upper class families manfei takes
private english lessons even before the
covet 19 pandemic they were conducted
online
meanwhile mother shen chiong takes care
of the weekend shopping and the
electricity bill
all on her smartphone
the family lives in hangzhou
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the city has grown rapidly into a
high-tech metropolis it's now home to 10
million people
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the uu family's car is also equipped
with the latest technology they drive an
electric vehicle from chinese
manufacturer neo
it too has internet
hey nominee
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the family passes by countless cameras
on their drive through the city
does that ever make each way uneasy
no
on the contrary
i feel a sense of security
the problem isn't that data exists
the question is what's done with it
the government is very strict with our
data as far as i know
i trust them
a couple hours drive away is shanghai
home to 24 million residents
each city district has a data hub where
all the information is collected
authorities call it the brain
foreign media are seldom allowed access
employees in this district alone have
access to 290 000 cameras and in some
cases
they can control them directly
algorithms help staff sort through the
material
this monitor maps all construction sites
and the red dots flag irregularities
in one instance the ai detects a
construction worker not wearing a safety
helmet
co-developed the system
it took less than a year to get the
first version up and running
now she can monitor every resident from
this office
we've mapped the residential buildings
in the district
which ones are occupied
where there are vacancies
and can be called up in real time
even those who do not dispose of their
trash properly are recorded
residents who aren't following the rules
are captured on camera from three
different angles
the so-called brain acts swiftly
whether it's an illegally parked car or
unsolicited advertising offences can be
handled by patrol officers who are
connected to the control center via a
mobile app
as soon as the squads and volunteers in
residential districts spot an issue they
can report it and upload footage
they take a photo report the issue and
then our system automatically decides
which department to forward the matter
to
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district is just one component to the
overarching surveillance plan the
chinese government is pushing across the
country
the goal is to have complete coverage in
all major public places such as train
stations
street intersections and parks
china's state media boasts that police
can identify every single person on the
street in just one second
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in berlin researcher mariko ulberg is
keeping a close eye on china's rapidly
growing security apparatus
orberg herself cannot enter china
anymore because her research is a thorn
in the side of authorities there
she knows all about surveillance centers
like the one in shanghai
for years she's collected chinese data
that's available online for instance
from public tenders
we've downloaded several million data
sets some have very detailed
dependencies where really different
surveillance schemes are explained in
great depth
for instance what type of camera to
install over which building entrance
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the data sets also make clear why
chinese authorities are monitoring their
citizens in the first place
it's beautifully described that
essentially people and human interaction
are the source of any social conflict
and social conflict is ultimately what
could cause difficulties for the
government if they can't provide social
stability
that's all to say if you can monitor
human activity with cameras with
surveillance then you can also promptly
detect and defuse any conflict and
essentially have peace again
in shanghai there's big money in data
collection
that's why huge corporations have set up
shop in china like the tech company
tencent the alibaba group and bite dance
which markets itself as cosmopolitan in
promo videos
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as the parent company of tick tock by
dance is the world's most valuable
startup
tech talk was the most downloaded app of
2020. the app has close to 700 million
active users every month and is
especially popular among young people
across the world
that includes germany too of course
at the campus of the rua university
bochum in north rhine west failure finn
is an avid biker and his girlfriend jill
films for tick-tock
yep got it
the student and her boyfriend love the
social networking platform from china
is the text okay i think it's fine okay
okay next
okay you're done one thing they both
love about tick-tock anyone can get
famous in just seconds
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my favorite part is that you don't have
to do anything extraordinary you just
upload a video and with luck you'll
instantly have a thousand likes 4 000
likes
what you know about rolling down in the
deep when your brain goes
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that's awesome
very cool
all of finn and jill's friends are now
on tick tock as well
the couple spends a lot of time on the
app
well it's a bit embarrassing i don't
want to admit how fast the time flies by
i have the feeling you don't just look
at one or two videos you endlessly
scroll through
the secret to keep users scrolling
the algorithm
it tracks which videos jill and finn
like and keeps offering new ones which
they then like even more
as their tick-tock feeds become
increasingly tailored to their specific
tastes the app is gathering troves of
data in the background
but what exactly is it learning
what does tick tock know about the
couple
the two are curious
we asked researchers at roe universities
institute for it security to take a
closer look at the app
and shed some light on what kind of data
tick tock's collecting
so tick tock is installed on my phone
the two can now see in real time what
data is being transmitted
so while catchy tunes play in the
foreground the network scans through
personal data in the background
the approximate location the cell phone
model and of course every single like
and commented
i found it fascinating to see it all in
such depth
i've never seen it before
with tiktok i found it interesting and
surprising especially the fact that you
can see how long i've watched which
video or when i skip over it i was
shocked to see it lay down like that but
i think with time i'll forget about that
too and just use tick-tock like i
normally do
with every scrap of data tick tock's
algorithm is sharpened so the
personalized recommendations get better
ticktack has very good mechanisms in the
background to suggest the exact content
i like thereby maximizing the likelihood
that i'll stay on the platform longer
that's where they're better than
facebook and instagram and that's
exactly what makes this company so
valuable
on the other hand a platform like this
can also filter out certain content so
if certain political content or topics
aren't desired they're just not shown to
other users
tiktok is time and again accused of
pushing funny videos and suppressing
disagreeable content
videos that are critical of china don't
stand a chance
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case in point the tiananmen square
massacre
clips of the deadly 1989 protests can be
found here and there but often with very
few likes
it's called shadow banning
content is not deleted but it's shown so
rarely that it's essentially made
invisible
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tech talk declined our request for an
interview on this topic but the
company's berlin office told us their
content moderation is not influenced by
any government including china's
despite assertions otherwise expert
mariko ulbek says chinese companies may
be private on paper
but the state reserves the right to
intervene at any time
of course there's ultimately the
possibility to have greater control over
these products even if the content isn't
overtly censored it can be indirectly
censored through what's pushed out what
becomes popular versus what's made to
disappear
in beijing artist dang ifang knows what
it's like for something to disappear at
the hands of chinese senses
because he works on politically
sensitive topics he's been questioned
several times by police
in a performance last year he explored
the question is it even possible to walk
down a beijing street anymore without
being captured on camera
such as the focal length the angle
for each camera i identified the brand
and model so i had precise information
and knew the exact area it covered
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he filmed a group of volunteers walking
along a stretch in the shadow of
beijing's cameras
each step was choreographed
the group took over two hours to walk
about one kilometer
the videos have since been censored by
the authorities and can only be viewed
outside mainland china
the artist is also no longer permitted
to distribute the material
tomorrow
of course i'm disappointed
as an artist you create something you
invest work ideas and thoughts you try
to express yourself
you nurture it like you do a child and
then you can't make your own work known
or show it to anyone
of course it's frustrating
his latest project also grapples with
privacy concerns
and his critique extends beyond china
in his exhibition he publishes a
provocative fact sheet listing his own
personal information
in the wake of the covet 19 pandemic
data collection has ramped up even more
in china
health authorities use apps to try to
identify infected individuals potential
contacts
dung must scan a qr code with an app
before entering the gallery district
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his temperature is also taken
the app looks at your health status
and can track your journey
after the scan it shows you if
everything is okay
if he had been in the same place as
someone infected with the coronavirus he
would have been denied entry
whenever curved 19 is again detected in
the country the app becomes everyone's
ticket to public life to shop at a
grocery store to eat at a restaurant
even to get a taxi
back in bochum researchers at rural
university are comparing the chinese
health app to germany's coronavirus app
the german version adheres to the
country's notoriously strict data
protection laws
the app may only communicate anonymously
with other mobile devices in the
immediate vicinity
that means the data is processed locally
on my phone the chinese app works
completely differently
analyzing the app proves complicated
the data is encrypted but the
researchers can see that data is being
collected and transmitted at every
check-in location
this information that i'm at a certain
place at a certain time that is then
presumably transmitted to a central
place and that's where the actual
analysis is done checking in itself is
of course problematic from a privacy
perspective because you then have very
detailed tracking
china has completely de-emphasized
privacy and freedom of movement during
the pandemic
in the brain of shanghai's podong
district every suspected covert 19 case
is
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we monitored a network of sensors in
front of apartments when the door sensor
registers people leaving the apartment
in violation of the rules we're alerted
district staff and the health department
are then informed and can respond
quickly
what's technologically possible is
carried out with little regard for
people's privacy
criticism or resistance among the
population is virtually non-existent
even the usually critical artist dang
thinks collecting health data amid the
pandemic is useful
it's an ethical trade-off
is human life or privacy more important
that's the choice that technology
presents us
in this case i think everyone makes the
decision that life is more important
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back in hangzhou the u family goes about
their daily routine which they believe
is easier thanks to technology
shopping without cash is the standard
ten-year-old manfaye can buy a drink to
go with a scan of her smart watch
the family leaves a trail of digital
footprints everywhere it goes
they're seen by companies as well as
government agencies
china is among the countries collecting
the most amount of personal data
the government wants to go a step
further by implementing a ranking system
of individual behavior
the project is already being piloted in
the u family's home city so they can
collect points
the better you score the more advantages
you have in your daily life i think it
encourages people to voluntarily follow
the rules
that's how the social credit system
works in hangzhou
those who violate laws like not paying
their taxes on time or not paying back
loans have points deducted
people are also penalized for making
false statements in the country's covet
19 app
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people are rewarded for volunteering
staying fit through exercise or using
low emission transportation
donating blood also earns points
other cities also reward organ donors
or everyday things like returning books
to the library on time
but what precisely is collected and how
scores are calculated is not transparent
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professor dai shin has been researching
the topic for years
the beijing subway system also has a
project that incentivizes commuters
people who follow the rules are allowed
to skip strict security checks at subway
entrances where every bag is normally
scanned
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the ideas tend to be yes if you have
some records built up
based on your previous behavior then you
know there's a determination that your
risk might be kind of really low and
then we can subject you to
less
you know
checks than other people
china wants obedient citizens
authorities entice with rewards and
threaten with punishment
professor dye tells us the state hasn't
always been able to enforce laws but
that's changing
rule breakers will be penalized more
harshly and comprehensively going
forward
okay let's say they don't care about
paying fines that i impose
maybe they care about for example next
time they go to the tax authority asking
for a certain
type of you know tax relief they might
actually
be interested in uh if they know you
know what they they they make me unhappy
they might also have trouble with you
then they actually have additional
incentives
is signing up for the social credit
system
one third of hangzhou's residents have
registered so far
ui has to link the data from his
personal id
then he'll get his score
that's 493 points right after
registering
perks start after 550 points
the launch of a nationwide rating system
was originally planned for 2020 but like
so many data projects it's being tested
locally first
just trying something out is also common
in china
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experimentation is a key business model
in the country
tech companies rely on savvy consumers
like the her family in shanghai
i'm here
play a kids movie
okay
is the name of the voice assistant from
electronics manufacturer xiaomi a
chinese alexa
the her family loves smart technology
their tv lights and air conditioning can
all be controlled by a mobile app
even the refrigerator is high tech
offering reminders about their groceries
shelf life
a week before this onion goes bad i get
a reminder that i better use it up now
and i can always check my smartphone to
see what's about to expire in the fridge
i don't think i'm bragging when i say
that china is ahead of the us and europe
in terms of digital life
simply because there's a huge range of
connected products for every area of
life
chinese technology has long been finding
its way into the homes of german
consumers
dusseldorf is home to xiaomi's german
headquarters
the managing director is excited to show
us around
the products that her family rave about
in china are also set to capture the
german market
the company is driven by the same goal
in both countries
growth
it's entirely transparent
this tv is one of the company's latest
innovations
rice cookers electric kettles electric
scooters
xiaomi wants its products to be
integrated into all facets of daily life
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for everything
you can control all devices on your
smartphone
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in germany xiaomi has quickly emerged as
the third most populous smartphone maker
not that german customers are making it
easy for them
we bring value to consumers
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in a promotional video the company
promised top innovation imported at low
prices
but a scandal last year undermined this
positive messaging
an i.t expert from london discovered
that cell phones from xiaomi transferred
highly personal user data to the company
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international media reported users were
being spied on
researchers in bochum saw the news too
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we saw that users browsing behavior was
sent to another server where it was
possible to track which smartphone
visited which website
so you could pinpoint in detail which
website i went to and at what time
you could also generate specific
tracking profiles from that
the researchers assess how data is being
transmitted by connecting the cell phone
inside this special box
xiaomi claimed it immediately stopped
collecting data after the allegations
the team at rural university confirmed
this too after analyzing the latest
browser version
xiaomi phones from germany no longer
transmit sensitive information in the
background
you can see that in germany or europe in
general
data protection is considered very
important
in fact the general data protection
regulation is the strictest in the world
in germany the topic plays an especially
important role compared to china where
consumers are suddenly very transparent
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facial recognition is the basis of
chinese government surveillance
at han wang technology in beijing
developing artificial intelligence is
painstaking work
through countless clicks jiang jo han
and his team teach the computer to
correctly analyze crowds
deciphering what's ahead versus the back
of the head
and what's just an object
these are images from the web and from
movies where there are many people
the pandemic presented the company with
its biggest challenge yet the software
stopped working when suddenly everyone
was wearing a mask to protect themselves
against the virus
immediately launched a task force to
feed the computers new data
we then mobilized the whole company
everyone took pictures of themselves at
home pictures with masks in different
environments
we all collected
i remember we started this in
mid-february
and by mid-march
we released our facial recognition
algorithm with masks
we were the first in china
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facial recognition in germany is a
different story
a pilot project ran at this berlin train
station for over a year
it was the largest trial to date with
three hundred test subjects
time and again german authorities flirt
with this technology
kensa ayid si abu is an expert in
robotics and artificial intelligence
she previously lived in china and is
fascinated by the potential of
technology
still she has her reservations
it means no one is anonymous anymore
if i walk down the street people would
know exactly who i am where i live where
i've just been who i'm meeting and
that's of course an invasion of privacy
the pilot project at berlin's sutroids
train station was met with skepticism
and protests
the idea of the state monitoring the
population through facial recognition is
not popular in germany
the pilot project is now over
so how should new technologies be
developed when they can't be tested
yeah most of my kind people don't like
to take risks here which often leads to
us not being quite as fast
but when the product is out it's much
better than all the others
and that's always what we talk about
and what i would like to see as a tech
expert is that we take a bit more risk
and trust ourselves a bit more
just how quickly china crosses the line
between the use and abuse of technology
can be seen in xinjiang in the northwest
of the country
the chinese government markets the
region with its capital urumqi as an
exotic tourist destination
xinjiang is home to the wigas a mainly
muslim turkic ethnic group with their
own language and culture
the state has imposed an unprecedented
regime of surveillance and repression
in the past tensions between wigas and
the chinese state escalated to violence
now the chinese government exercises
complete control
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this started in 2016 around 4 cameras
were installed everywhere more and more
every day
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is from xinjiang but she now lives in
the netherlands
that's why she can speak freely
back in her homeland people who openly
criticize the chinese government face
imprisonment
we visited urumchi to connect the dots
of kb newer cdx story
she lived in this residential area
dotted with surveillance cameras
all over urumqi facial recognition
software is embedded into building
entrances and the information is sent to
the police
so the state always knows who's coming
and going
suddenly no one was allowed to visit us
only very close relatives we had to get
their visit approved with date time and
a reason
we were not able to verify many details
in her story
we couldn't conduct interviews because
we too were under constant surveillance
policemen were everywhere on the street
equipped with mobile id scanners
at times a checkpoint appeared every few
hundred meters
heavily armed policemen came immediately
they were already standing by they put a
black bag over people's heads and led
them away
i saw that very often to this day i
start shaking when i see a black plastic
bag
in the northern part of the city between
prisons we managed to film a complex of
data centers where surveillance cameras
and other data are analyzed
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the software identifies a suspect it
reports it directly to the police
officers on the scene via a mobile app
among those under surveillance
are people who recently moved
who traveled abroad
who appear in a government database of
potential suspects as well as their
contacts
who use an unusually large amount of
electricity
or whose cell phone wasn't logged into a
network for a while
our investigation quickly faced
resistance
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don't ask who we are
what are you doing here
what did you film
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is a teacher
in xinjiang she taught chinese at an
elementary school
then she was transferred to this complex
on the outskirts of the city ostensibly
to teach chinese to wiggers
the people's hands and feet were tied
they moved as if in slow motion
then i understood that i had not been
taken to a school for adult education
but to a prison camp
the area was gradually transformed into
a high security wing with watchtowers
and barbed wire enclosures
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those features have since disappeared
again
signs now say the area is an industrial
zone but it's still closely guarded by
the police
you can't go in there
we're just walking around outside no you
can't do that and there's nothing to see
there either
china's government denies that such
camps exist and refers to them as
vocational training centers
but international observers disagree
they say about a million people have
disappeared at least temporarily into
such internment camps
kb new acidic reported torture and
sexual violence
the women were also forced to
they couldn't stop bleeding there was an
18 year old who lost so much blood she
died because she didn't get care in time
i saw them carrying her out
the birth rate among wigas has dropped
dramatically since beijing's total
repression began
several nations label their actions as a
genocide which the government rejects
questions about what's happening in
xinjiang ricochet back to chinese
technology companies
don may and his colleagues in
pennsylvania in the united states
analyze surveillance equipment
while testing facial recognition
programs from the chinese company dawa
they discovered something they hadn't
seen before
a category for race we're getting his
age
the software labelled people as quote
black
white
and yellow what his gender is and that's
not all
dawah developed a particular solution
designed for police to provide real-time
uyghur alarms and alerts
so
there's clearly a financial incentive
by dawa to create this because
the demand is coming from the government
according to the team's research dawa's
system can send an alert to chinese
police if a person appears to be from
the muslim uighur minority group
dawa is the second largest supplier of
surveillance technology and sells its
products worldwide including to germany
but dawa is not the only chinese company
specializing in this tech
this is a patent application for facial
recognition technology filed jointly by
the global telecom company huawei
and the chinese academy of sciences
this technology also distinguishes
ethnic groups
han chinese
and wiggers
when you're using technology
to specifically target ethnic minorities
that are being persecuted
and it's labeled by the u.s government
as a genocide and your company is
developing solutions for that
it is an ethical concern
the patent application has meanwhile
been amended the word wigger has
disappeared
the demand for artificial intelligence
has skyrocketed as a result of china's
investment in surveillance
development is happening at breakneck
speed
china aims to be the leader of this tech
in the next decade
the brave new world
many here celebrate modern technology
and are proud of the advancements
the future of high tech is taking shape
fast
should Eleoem China Suppliers have total control of the
reins or should the rest of the world
get a say too
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