- Chinese police are preparing to monitor VPN and telegram users with tools fueled by 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 media application and international information sites Vpn
When we consider the future of the police, China reserves the spotlights of the surveillance fueled by the AI - and the users of VPN and telegram are among the targets.
As the South China Morning Post reported, AI technology was the key element throughout the 12th international exhibition in China on police equipment, the largest exhibition of police technology held in Beijing last May.
In addition to the LLM models inspired by Deepseek which support criminal surveys and identify high -risk individuals, two tools are ready to make the lives of millions of Chinese who regularly use the best VPNs even more difficult.
The repression of China AI to online dissent and censorship
Although it is difficult to estimate the number of people using a virtual private network (VPN) in China, we know that the tool is crucial to access WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, as well as international and independent information sites – the South China Morning Post included.
As Freedom House wrote in his latest report, “Chinese Internet users had to face the worst conditions of the world for Internet freedom for a decade”.
The severe legal repercussions for online activities and strict censorship, explains the report, are supplemented by the work of the authorities restricting access to anti -scale tools such as VPNs.
Today, only a handful of VPN services for China work under these unfavorable conditions. Despite this, however, China’s police are looking to become even more effective to block them.
This is, at least, what a technological company in Nanjing, a city in eastern China, plans to do. During the event, the company “presented a tool capable of detecting such use [of VPNs]”The South China Morning Post reported.
Most people using VPN are likely to do so to access the telegram, among others. The popular messaging application and its official website have been blocked since 2015 in China, following a distributed service denial attack (DDOS) against its servers.
If you can’t prevent it, you can control it, right? This is what the third research institute of the Ministry of Public Security – the best police organization in the country – has proposed to do with its new tools which, according to them, can monitor Telegram.
This surveillance software would be able to monitor all telegrams accounts with Chinese mobile phone numbers, as these include strict real requirements.
“To date, the tool has collected more than 30 billion messages and monitored 70 million telegram accounts, as well as 390,000 channels and public groups,” the group said in accordance with the South China Morning Post.
However, on the most important thing, this tool also seeks to target dissent online by scanning all the telegrams linked to politics and Hong Kong.
“The Institute cited the widespread use of the telegram by anti -government demonstrators in Hong Kong in 2019 as one of the reasons for the development of the tool,” wrote the South China Morning Post.
