Serbian Authorities Use High-Tech Surveillance to Monitor Opponents: BIRN Report
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As well as the large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology in urban areas, the authorities have sought to monitor opponents, activists and journalists, says a new report by BIRN.

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Here is the report (pdf).

Serbian authorities have adopted invasive surveillance practices and facial recognition technology to monitor political opponents, civic activists and critical journalists, says a BIRN report entitled ‘Digital Surveillance in Serbia – A Threat to Human Rights?’, published on Friday.

Equipment from Chinese manufacturers, such as Dahua and Hickvision, predominates.

Serbia’s aspirations for EU membership mean that it faces pressure to adhere to EU standards on data protection and privacy as well as cybersecurity. However, Serbia has simultaneously strengthened ties with authoritarian countries, especially China and Russia.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      13·
      4 months ago

      Calling Serbia “the West” is kinda stupid considering they’re friends with “the East” and fail to adhere to any sort of EU law. And shit like this is precisely why Serbia will never join the EU, as this type of practice has been basically outlawed a while ago.

        • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
          8·
          4 months ago

          No, I’m not. And me pointing out Serbia’s allegiance should’ve been clue enough to understand that. The West is a collective of a shared understanding of values, values that Serbia does not share. So please stop being willfully obtuse.

      • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        4 months ago

        Even to the (insufficient, overblown) extent that it happens, lifting “the poor” Han Chinese out of poverty by putting other populations (Uighurs) under slave labour instead, is not the moral win you’re implying.

        If an ethnic cleansing is part of the requirements, to stop committing humanitarian atrocities towards “the poor”, that’s still an atrocity.

        Disclaimer, the USA, just like every authoritarian state, is also disgusting and criminal.