“But just like in China, you couldn’t enter public places if you didn’t have that contact tracing app.” And once the pandemic surveillance infrastructure was in place, the police wasted no time in taking advantage of it.For one thing, I think it helped illustrate that surveillance is not an abstract “evil” that all “good” societies would naturally object to.Instead of relying on governments to be responsible with data and self-correct when it makes mistakes, Chin and Lin argued, it’s important to start recognizing the harm of surveillance tech early, and to craft regulations that safeguard against those dangers.The Biden administration will block international companies, not just American ones, from selling advanced chips and relevant tools to certain Chinese companies.(Reuters $) - Of course, Chinese companies will look for workarounds: already, a startup run by a former Huawei executive is building a semiconductor manufacturing factory in Shenzhen."