Creepy phone snooping via the BBC's @ProducerKathy

Then there's WeChat, indispensable in China for reporting and spying on reporters, via @YuanfenYang and @kyodo_english's Tomoyuki Tachikawa

And real-time surveillance-camera tracking via @billbirtles

This from @adorloff shows how cumulative surveillance has handcuffed us in Xinjiang

Many, many more are in the full report (with a cover image I shot in Xinjiang). It's a new era, and not just for reporters in China. Other countries are buying Chinese tech and studying Chinese methods. https://www.dropbox.com/s/h2h00yicr2eusyt/under%20watch.pdf?dl=0 …

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