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Turning Food Delivery Workers into Spies

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Dissent

PPSA writes:

Imagine this scenario: It’s early evening, and you and your special someone are on the couch preparing to binge-watch your favorite streaming show.

Ding-dong.

You answer the door and, as you hoped, it is the dinner delivery person. He hands you your prepaid, pre-tipped meal and you start to shut the door when the delivery worker puts his foot down, blocking you.

He snaps a picture over your shoulder and asks: “Why is the wall over your couch bare? It should have a picture of the Dear Leader. I now have no choice but to report you.”

This fantastical scenario of a police state enlisting food delivery workers as auxiliary police is taking place, for real, in the People’s Republic of China, according to disturbing reports from Radio Free Asia.

Read more at Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability.

via Joe Cadillic

Category: Non-U.S.Surveillance

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