𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗮, 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗷𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀?
EU research money, a Chinese firm and Turkish surveillance tech.
A company part-owned by China’s ZTE still gets EU funding – while its servers help Turkey monitor protesters.
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A Turkish firm which has been backed by EU research funds is supplying facial recognition equipment to Ankara. The company’s controlling shareholder is Chinese tech giant ZTE, classified by Brussels a...
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4/ Tenders show the company has recently supplied facial-recognition servers to Turkish law enforcement, feeding into a major expansion of the country’s surveillance system.