AP Investigation Wins Award for Exposing Global Mass Surveillance Tools from Silicon Valley to China to U.S. Border Patrol
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Summary
This article describes an award-winning global investigation by Associated Press journalists into state-of-the-art mass surveillance tools. The investigation traces how these tools were created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China, spread worldwide, and eventually returned to America for secret new uses by the U.S. Border Patrol. The work won a distinguished reporting award for international affairs.
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For an astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance, created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China and spreading worldwide before returning to America for secret new uses by the U.S. Border Patrol.
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