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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 ....
A Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/AlamyA Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/Alamy 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. February 18 2021, 11:20 a.m. A Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/AlamyA Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/Alamy ....