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ah, here in this shanghai surveillance center, no resident goes unwatched. hundreds of millions of cameras are installed all over china. this is shipping the 18 that we have algorithms that automatically recognizes behavior. if someone is wearing a mosque, for example, we immediately detect this wrong doing business with no one can escape the cameras gaze even when taking out the trash. technological advancements in china effect so many to chinese corporations have long been amassing troves of use the data with the it's i don't have control over way my data cent, whether it's to the u. s. in china or ever modern technology has its advantage from cashless payments to internet equipped cause. we're heading

full throttle into a high tech future. but at what cost? ah. the you family embraces all the latest tech, the world's evolving and father chin way believes it's best to keep up. ha, ah no. when the chinese version of tick tock is a favorite source of entertainment for 10 year old man fe and her parents. julia missing is when we watch videos of friends that was just a friend's young daughter. for example, jose a film cute videos of their children and upload them. it gives us things to talk about tele, leroy mon fee is content using the tiny screen on her smart watch. many

of her classmates have such devices rather than smartphones. she can use a watch to make phone calls and even purchases one door. sure. oh, does she? oh, do data when my parents aren't around and i can't remember the homework advantage. 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 or show of i that the pilot shania browley agree pays year. charlie. and yet, what is your ne mind on as goofy? like many other children in middle to upper class families, mun, fe takes private english lessons even before the cove at 19 pandemic. they were conducted online. meanwhile, mother sent young takes care of the weekend shopping and the electricity bill all on her smartphone. the family lives in hung jo,

ah, the city has grown rapidly into a high tech metropolis. it's now home to 10000000 people. the families car is also equipped with the latest technology. they drive an electric vehicle from chinese manufacturer, neo it to has internet pay no me for the last song. ah, the family passes by countless cameras on their drive through the city. does that ever make each and way uneasy? not on the hill visible to the water and shrink. i'm now on the contrary, that how i feel a sense of security. think it's a problem, isn't that data exists?

the question is what's done with it. i also had, since the government is very strict with our data, as far as i know, i trust them and how your soon bottom cub allow is drive away is shanghai home to 24000000 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 290000 cameras. and in some cases they can control them directly. algorithms help stuff sort through the material. this monitor maps, old construction sites, and the red dots flag irregularities in one instance. the

a i detect a construction worker not wearing a safety helmet, shang done, done co develop the system. it took less than a year to get the 1st version up and running. now she can monitor every president from this office and pay more than to go found it and good out shooting me a low volume. she says she, we've met the residential buildings on the district, attention that which ones are occupied last year, where there are vacancies, your content, where elderly people are living alone. loads honey, where care or help is leader. and it's all stored in our system order and can be called up in real time, the mentality to buy things in the adult day to go with compassion to acacia dodge ram. even those who do not dispose of their trash properly are recorded.

residents who aren't following the rules are captured on camera from 3 different angles. the so called brain act swiftly, whether it's an illegally parked car or unsolicited advertising offenses can be handled by patrol officers who are connected to the control center via a mobile app. just an example quarter, so launchers honey miniature into fatty him and as soon as the squads and volunteers in residential districts, hackers bought an issue that they can report it and upload footage on whether they take a photo report the issue. and then our system automatically decides which department to forward the matter to go cheaper and to go sal can as you and i go pull money to each other, go cheerleader ah, the brain in shanghai is pu dung 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 and major public places such as train stations, st intersections and parks. i, china, state media, boasts that police can identify every single person on the street in just one second. in berlin, research him a hi goulburg is keeping a close eye on china's rapidly growing security apparatus all burg 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 ma'am middle familiar and we've downloaded several 1000000

datasets. jessica, you some have very detail dependencies where really different surveillance schemes are explained in and wrote down with high accurate version. for instance, what type of camera to install over which building entrance the data sets also make clear why chinese authorities are monitoring their citizens and the 1st place the look guns will not obviously decimal to mention a mental issue into. it's beautifully described that essentially people and human interaction, all 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 the surveillance, then you can also promptly detect and diffused 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 and china like the tech company 10, send the ali baba group and white dance, which markets itself as cosmopolitan in promo videos. as the parent company of tick tock by dance is the world's most valuable start up with tick tock was the most downloaded up of 2020. the app has close to $700000000.00 active uses every month and is especially popular among young people across the world. ah, that includes germany too, of course, at the campus of the rural university bull home, a north wind westphalia. lynn is an avid biker, and his girlfriend, jill films put tick tock. okay. yep. got it. the student and her boyfriend

love the social networking platform from china with guzman. okay. those are the text. okay. i think it's fine. okay. yet on. okay, next. okay, adam, one thing they both love about tick tock is anyone can get famous in just 2nd. what you know, ball rolling down in with my favorite part is that you don't have to do anything extraordinary. you just upload a video with luck. you'll instantly have a 1000 like 4000 like what you know, mo roland down in a mental freeze with her. that's awesome. yeah. very cool. all our financials,

friends are now on tick tock as well. the couples spends a lot of time on the i as us has fantastic. well, it's a bit embarrassing and i don't want to admit how fast the time flies by. i have the feeling, you don't just look at one or 2 videos, you endlessly scroll through my head with the secret to keep user. scrolling the algorithm, it tracks which videos jill and fin like and keeps offering new ones, which they then might 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 2 are curious. we ask researchers at roo universities institute for i t security to take a closer look at the app and shed some light on what kind of data tick talks collecting liberty. talk with you as often wendy,

i'm from on. so tick tock installed on my phone and is on all the the to can now see in real time what data is being transmitted. avenue of this information is always transmitted. so while catchy tunes play in the foreground, the network scans through personal data and the background as us get it to the approximate location the, your cellphone model from. and of course, every single like and comment or them from one of the vitally one soon. and as it generated i, i found it fascinating to see it all in such depth, and i've never seen it before it talk with take talk. 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, like, i was shocked to see it laid out like that. but i think with time, i'll forget about that too and just use tick tock like i normally do. think of it

of movie am i with every scrap of data take talks algorithm as sharp in say the personalized recommendations get better. tick tock, tick, tock has very good mechanisms in the background to suggest the exact content i like on there by 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 of that. on the other hand, up on a platform like this can also filter out certain content to share. so if certain political content or topics aren't desired, when they're just not shown to other users, hang a tight, tick tock is time. and again, accused of pushing funny videos and suppressing disagreeable contest things. videos that are critical of china don't stand a chance to move in case in point. the gentleman 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. tick tock 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. my callback says chinese companies may be private on paper, but the state reserves the right to intervene at any time. the host leslie can have caused this, 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 on deficient.

in beijing artist dung. e fung 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 that even possible to walk down a beijing street any more without being captured on camera? which you, you google us by may go, sam po, she paiute up here. now she doubt hard. i photographed each surveillance camera and i think researched the model out of a marked down the technical details of such as the focal length and the angle. behold, at other choices for each camera identified the brand. the model that she saw i had precise information and knew the exact area recovery angela. you go potty ambo, you go full phone. he filmed a group of volunteers walking along stretch in the shadow of beijing's cameras.

each step was choreographed the group took over 2 hours to walk about one kilometer. the videos have since been sent, said by the authorities, and can only be viewed outside mainland china. the artist is also no longer permitted to distribute the material. so the bottom or can is a song tomorrow his anger needs as always involve him nice about course i'm disappointed. as an artist, you create something, you invest, work ideas and thoughts are you if i try to express yourself resentful, you're either you nurture it like you do a child when and then you can make your own work known or show it to anyone can but of course it's frustrating at okay sob. 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 cove at 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 q r code with an up before entering the gallery district. his temperature is also taken apart, tacitly touching needed. the app looks your health status, ethan, and contract your journey. after the scabs, it shows you if everything is okay and your which, which is the don. where do you know if he had been in the same place as some one

infected with a corona virus? he would have been denied entry whenever curve at 19 is again detected in the country. the up 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 bo, home researchers at real university are comparing the chinese health app to germany's corona virus. up the german version adheres to the countries notoriously strict data protection laws the up my only communicate anonymously with other mobile devices in the immediate vicinity hillis with, nor by which i pronounced as high as images without in pharma. that means the data is processed locally on my phone, but if the chinese app works completely differ way us. 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 is as, as when some of this information that i'm at a certain place at a certain time with that is then presumably transmitted to a central place. and that's where the actual analysis is done. the checking in itself is, of course problematic from a privacy perspective. because you then have very detail tracking rules poor feel hot. china has completely de emphasized privacy and freedom of movement during the pandemic. in the brain of shanghai for don district, every suspected coven 19 case is monitored. mm hm. oh, so i may officially think that it wouldn't answer as it is chicago. we installed a network of sensors in front of apartment life when the door sensor registers. people leaving the apartment in violation of the rules were alerted. the district

staff and the health department are then informed on it and can respond quickly at any fashion. what's technologically possible is carried out with little regard for people's privacy, criticism, or resistance among the population is virtually nonexistent. even the usually critical artist dung thinks collecting health data amid the pandemic is useful when this eob please legal. it's an ethical tradeoff about his human life or privacy more important going thought by us, the choice the technology presents us. oh, this guy i think ever makes the decision that life is more important. ah, back in hung joe, the you, family goes about their daily routine, which they believe is easier thanks to technology. shopping without cash is the stand it 10 year old man fe can buy a drink to go with

a scan of his smart watch. the family leaves the 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 family's home city, so they can collect points in the senior, gone dead and it's so better you score good that the more advantages you have in your daily life. i think it encourages people to voluntarily follow the rules over . oh, that's how the social credit system works and hung. joe. those who violate laws

like not paying their taxes on time. oh, not paying back. loans. have points deducted. people also penalized for making false statements in the countries cove at 19 app. ah, people are rewarded for volunteering, staying through exercise, or using low emission transportation. donating blood also ends points. other cities also reward organ down his or every day things like returning books to the library on time. but what precisely is collected and how schools are calculated is not transparent. professor di shin has been researching the topic for years. the beijing subway system also has a project that incentivizes commute is people who follow the rules are

allowed to skip strict security checks at subway entrances, where every bag is normally scanned. and the idea sense of ye, yes, if you have some wreckers build of base, i am for his behavior. then you know there's a determination that are your risk might be kind of really low and then we can subject you to a less ah, you know aah! tax, the other people, china, once obedient citizens authorities entice with rewards and threaten with punishment . professor darling tells us the state hasn't always been able to enforce laws, but that's changing. rule break his will be penalized more harshly and comprehensively going for it. okay, i say they don't care about paying find that i'm hose a, maybe they care about. for example, next time they go to the tax authority asking for certain type of, you know,

tacitly, they my, actually, i'd be interested in, if they know, you know what they, they, they make me a happy them. i also have trouble with you than they, i should have additional incentives. each in way is signing up for the social credit system. one 3rd of hung, jose residents have registered so far. he has to link the data from his personal id, then he'll get his school, made me them a yoga, or what if it was it has to be stuck. that's 493 points. right after registering they did all the perks start after $550.00 points or josha ginger to pin them down. the launch of a nation wide 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

. o. experimentation is the key business model in the country. tech companies rely on saudi consumers like the her family in shanghai, charger with i'm here. she won't play a kids movie. oh ok. yeah, i is the name of the voice assistant from electronics manufacturer show me a chinese alexa sondra. the her family loves small technology. they tv lights and air conditioning can all be controlled by a mobile app. even their refrigerator is high tech, offering remind is about they groceries, shelf life, what she told to rush to you 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, which will change. you don't wonder, wishes either to go. 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. hunger talk to me in chinese technology has long been finding its way into the homes of german consumers. just a doth is home to show these german headquarters. you know, a managing director is excited to show us around the products the, her family rave about. and china also said to capture the term and market the company is driven by the same goal in both countries, even as

a growth in buses. it's entirely transparent. this tv is one of the company's latest innovations, guys, often those rice cookies, electric kettles, electric scooters. ucla shall me, once it's products to be integrated into all facets of daily life era, a fish in with those who cannot was impressive. our principle is one up for everything. one can, you can control all devices on your smartphone. i've also had so soya come up in germany, shell me has quickly emerged as the 3rd most popular smartphone, mca, you know what he was put up there because you are not that german customers are making it easy for them. i found that to fix them. new services, sir. mortgage. the sir man, i'm his 4th makes sense to be a little cautious now. of it. we're building with the smartphone. simplifies, are alive, us navy, and i'm far that we bring value, the consumer them and causal. and me in a promotional video,

the company promise 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, shall me transferred highly personal, use a data to the company. mm hm. it's a national media reported uses were being spied on research as in boy. hm. so the news to the old and not a few line fuss magazine had to est, as we saw, that users browsing behavior was sent to another server where it was possible to track which smartphone visited which website website her gun. so you could pinpoint in detail which website i went to and at what times like miniature, you could also generate specific tracking profiles from that of even with popular. what's going on. the research is assess how data is being transmitted by connecting

to self an insight. this special box shall me, claimed it immediately, st. collecting data after the allegations. the team, andrew university confirmed this to after analyzing the latest browser version, shall me phones from germany, no longer transmit sensitive information in the background. think at us when you can see that in germany or europe in general, data protection is considered very important doctors what's going in fact, the general data protection regulation is the strictest in the world. and in or in germany, the topic plays and especially important roles seen compared to china, where consumers are suddenly very transparent. facial recognition is the basis of chinese government surveillance. a ton one technology in beijing, developing artificial intelligence is painstaking work. get billed through countless clicks. young joe hun and his team teach the computer to correctly

analyze crowds. deciphering what's a head versus the back of the head. and what's just an object. all a home is, and that's all in volatile. sure. oh, he's our images from the web and from movies where there are many people here long at all here. what i always hear total neural daniel here. how about it? that's where we mark individual faces and label them. not roger home to have a short wave of golden. 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. to hey, jan jo hun immediately launched a task force to feed the computers new data on along shorter shirt on google savannah and i, we then mobilized the whole company over going on. every one took pictures of themselves at home,

or pictures with masks and different environmental tony soldiers. we all collected them guy. sure. i remember we started this in mid february or in by mid march. we released our facial recognition algorithm with masks title. during our show that we were the 1st in china, one with auto pals on 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 300 test subjects. time and again, german authorities flood with this technology kanza i hate see a bu 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 from isa demon ran. it means no one is the not miss

anymore allow. if i walk down the street, people would know exactly who i am, where i live, where i've just been in my meeting and that's of course an invasion of privacy to provide. ah, the pilot project at valencia courts 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? you're mr. moore, kind of these people don't like to take risks yet, which often leads to us not being quite as fast on his secret, but when the product is out, it's much better than all the others that you do. and that's always what we talk about now. and what i would like to see is attack expert is that we take a bit more risk and trust ourselves, a bit more mer. so poem, just how quickly china crosses the line between the use and abuse of technology can

be seen in sion. john, in the north west of the country or the chinese government markets, the region with its capital room t as an exotic tourist destination syn. jung is home to the wiggers, 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 wiggers and the chinese state escalate had to violence. now the chinese government exercises complete control hot sauce camila. this started in 2016 around 4 cameras were installed everywhere, more and more every day, but still canada because how to cook. yep. mm kay. be new

acidic is from sion, john, but she now lives in the netherlands. that's why she can speak freely back in her homeland people who openly criticized the chinese government face imprisonment. we visited a room sheet to connect the dots of k be no acidic story. she lived in this residential area dotted with surveillance cameras all over a room chief 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. the alarm is more like amazon. suddenly no one was allowed to visit us early, very close relatives. we had to get their visit approved with date time and a reason exactly on a couple days was we were not able to verify many details in her

story. we couldn't conduct interviews because we 2 were under constant surveillance policeman were everywhere on the street equipped with mobile id scanners. at times, a checkpoint appeared every few 100 meters making chemical site up get a message for the blood that holler to those outside to the back. yoga when an alarm sounded at the id check, heavily armed policeman came immediately and they were already standing by. they put a black bag over people's heads and led them away high. so that very often to this day, i start shaking when i see a black plastic bag, a feminine suit in the i sample models, a in the northern part of the city between prisons. we manage to film a complex of data centers where surveillance cameras and other data are analyzed. when 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 cellphone wasn't locked into a network for a while. our investigation quickly faced resistance. we heard i would need oh, you have your your own ask who we are. what are you doing here? what did you film to the awesome tabby new acidic is a teacher in san jung. 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 belong to pull of the chin zehnder. the peoples has little feet were tied. they moved as if in slow motion on the vehicle, the veil. i understood that i had not been taken to visible for adult education law to a prison camp for the weekend of his golden mm. the area was gradually transformed into a high security wing with water towers and barbed wire. enclosures. those features have since disappeared again. signs i'll say the area is an industrial zone, but it's still closely guarded by the police. with it, you can go in there wrong with just walking around outside. no,

you can't do that. there's nothing to see there even show miss hogan. phil. phil initiated china's government denies that such camps exist and refers to them as vocational training centers. but international observers disagree, they say about a 1000000 people have disappeared at least temporarily into such internment. camps . pay be new acidic reported torture and sexual violence. the women will also forced to take an unknown substance. we hadn't little cause i alone or that the put up thought the bully middle colonial many did not get their periods off to that egg because of a book stick, a little concrete for some. it was the other way round. they couldn't stop leading to la. sure. 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, talking about that if you had given up monica,

the birth rate among riggers has dropped dramatically since beijing's total repression began. several nations label their actions as the genocide which the government rejects questions about what's happening in ship. jung ricocheted back to chinese technology companies, don mae and his colleagues in pennsylvania in the united states analyze surveillance equipment, is estin number your while testing facial recognition programs from the chinese company. dora, they discovered something they hadn't seen before. a category was full race. we're getting his age things, the software labeled people as quote, black, white on and yellow, what his gender is, and that's not all male darwalla developed a particular solution designed for police to provide real time weaker alarms and

alert. so there is clearly a financial incentive by darla to create this because the demand is coming from the government. according to the teens research dollars system can send an alert to chinese police if a person appears to be from the muslim, weaker minority group. dolah is the 2nd largest supply of surveillance technology and sells its products worldwide, including to germany. but dora is not the only chinese companies specializing in this tech. this is the patent application for facial recognition technology fall jointly by the global telecom company while way. and the chinese academy of sciences. this technology also distinguishes ethnic groups,

hunt chinese and wig is mm. we are using technology to specifically target ethnic minorities that are being persecuted and labeled by the u. s. government as a genocide in your company as developing solutions for that it is an ethical concern. the patient application has meanwhile been amended. the word wicker has disappeared, but the demand for artificial intelligence has skyrocketed. as the 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

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