- Chinese police are preparing to monitor VPN users and telegrams with tools with AI
- AI Technology was a key element in the largest police technology exhibition held in Beijing last May
- People in China cannot access Telegram, the most popular social networks application and international news sites Without a VPN
When considering the future of surveillance, China reserves attention for IA surveillance, and VPN and Telegram users are among the objectives.
As reported by the South China Morning Post, AI technology was the key element in the 12th International Exhibition of China on Equipment Police, the largest police technology exhibition held in Beijing last May.
Together with the LLM models inspired by Deepseek that support criminal investigations and identify high -risk people, two tools are ready to make the lives of millions of Chinese who regularly use the best even more difficult VPN.
China’s repression for dissent and online censorship
While it is difficult to estimate the number of people who use a virtual private network (VPN) in China, we do know that the tool is crucial to access WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Facebook, as well as international and independent news sites, including the publication of South China Morning.
As Freedom House wrote in his latest report, “Chinese Internet users have faced the worst conditions of the world for internet freedom for a decade.”
Severe legal repercussions for online activities and strict censorship, explains the report, complement each other with the work of authorities that restrict access to anti -anticensive tools such as VPNs.
Today, only a handful of VPN services for China work in these adverse conditions. Despite this, however, China’s police seek to be even more effective to block them.
That is, at least, what a Nanjing technology company, a city in eastern China, plans to do. During the event, the company “showed a tool capable of detecting this use [of VPNs]”The South China Morning Post reported.
It is likely that most people who use a VPN do so to access Telegram, among other things. The popular messaging application and its official website have been blocked since 2015 in China, after a distributed attack of denial of service (DDOS) on its servers.
If you can’t prevent it, you can control it, right? This is what the Third Investigation Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, the country’s main police agency, proposed to do with its new tools that, they say, can monitor the telegram.
It is said that this surveillance software can monitor all telegram accounts with Chinese mobile phone numbers, since these include strict real name requirements.
“To date, the tool has compiled more than 30 billion messages and has monitored 70 million telegram accounts, as well as 390,000 channels and public groups,” said the group, according to the South China Morning Post.
However, the most important thing is that this tool also seeks to go to online dissent by scanning all telegram messages related to politics and Hong Kong.
“The Institute cited the generalized use of Telegram by anti -government protesters in Hong Kong in 2019 as one of the reasons for developing the tool,” wrote the South China Morning Post.
