{"id":118,"date":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/2026\/03\/12\/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","slug":"invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/2026\/03\/12\/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Invasive\u2019 AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not \u2018necessary or proportionate\u2019, new report finds<\/p>\n<p>The rapid expansion of AI-powered mass-surveillance systems across Africa is violating citizens\u2019 right to privacy and having a chilling effect on society, according to experts on human rights and emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>At least $2bn (\u00a31.5bn) has been spent by 11 African governments on Chinese-built surveillance technology that recognises faces and monitors movements, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ids.ac.uk\/publications\/smart-city-surveillance-in-africa-mapping-chinese-ai-surveillance-across-11-countries\">a new report<\/a> by the Institute of Development Studies, which warns that national security is being used to justify implementing these systems with little regulation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/mar\/12\/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not \u2018necessary or proportionate\u2019, new report finds The rapid expansion of AI-powered mass-surveillance systems across Africa is violating citizens\u2019 right to privacy and having a chilling effect on society, according to experts on human rights and emerging technologies. At least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jiku.shop\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}