By Mara
Hvistendahl
The Intercept,
February 22, 2020
Oracle documents tout how its software can be used to integrate
social media activity with police data,
including in Chinam,
February 22, 2021
HOW ORACLE SELLS REPRESSION IN CHINA
In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being
passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software
for their surveillance work.
POLICE IN CHINA’S Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data
collected through invasive means: financial records, travel information,
vehicle registrations, social media, and surveillance camera footage. To
make sense of it all, they needed sophisticated analytic software. Enter