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Ausma Bernot

Platform power and state surveillance in China

November 24, 2025November 21, 2025 by Ausma Bernot

‘Super-app’ WeChat is now a crucial policing tool – its security role will only deepen in the future

Categories Analysis Tags China, Digital Surveillance, News, Police App, The Conversation Leave a comment

China’s high-tech spies that stay out in the cold

November 12, 2021October 29, 2021 by Ausma Bernot

But Beijing is not alone in exporting ‘authoritarian technology’ in the form of digital surveillance systems

Categories Analysis Tags China, Digital Authoritarianism, Europe, Freedoms, News, Technology, The Conversation, United States Leave a comment

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