Is Chinese-Style Surveillance the Future?

12/05/19 • 35 min

BuzzFeed News reporter Megha Rajagopalan describes how China uses high-tech surveillance to monitor its Muslim minority and assesses whether this technology will soon be ubiquitous among the world's dictatorships.

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