Desperate to stop coronavirus, China turns neighbour against neighbour

All across the country, despite China’s vast surveillance network with its facial recognition systems and high-end cameras that is increasingly used to track its 1.4 billion people, the government has turned to familiar authoritarian techniques — like setting up dragnets and asking neighbours to inform on one another — as it tries to contain the outbreak.

from Times of India https://ift.tt/2uij0TC