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6 days agoFrom Nairobi to Shenzhen to Sao Paulo: the global surveillance stack is being built fastest in the places with the least power to resist it, and almost nobody in Silicon Valley is talking about it - Silicon Canals
Surveillance infrastructure deployment is accelerating in developing nations through fragmented procurement processes, with Chinese vendors gaining market share by avoiding regulatory scrutiny that Western competitors impose.