
China is raising the alarm over corporate surveillance. But it's got a massive network of its own
CNN
A popular annual consumer rights show in China has sparked a national debate about privacy and surveillance and sent companies scrambling to stay on Beijing's good side.
The firestorm first erupted Monday during a two-hour primetime program called "315" that coincides with World Consumer Rights Day. The program is frequently used by China's state media to lambast brands over perceived shortcomings — Nike (NKE), McDonald's (MCD) and Apple (AAPL) have all been targeted by the show in prior years. This year, concerns about surveillance and privacy were front-and-center. Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television, or CCTV, used the program to accuse several companies of secretly collecting data about their customers using facial recognition — notably, without mentioning the massive network of facial recognition cameras that the Chinese government has built, capable of tracking people in real time.
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