Impact of technology
Since the emergency of the technology, many things have changed. Each day a new technology emerges. Each of the technology that emerges is new and has improved features that make it more advanced than previous. According to Duo and Harwell’s article on how Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity document show, it is clear that face-scanning technologies have brought something that never existed before.
A technological feature like facial recognition system has been brought by advanced technology which helps people seek help from the government to address those evils done to them by the local official. he sThis has enabled them to petition against those who have misused them. Technology has helped n the elimination of discrimination, such as racial discrimination. According to Duo and Harwell’s article on how Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity, the document shows clearly suggests that the technology has improved the social security of the people. People in China now feel much safe from the misuse by the communist party, which had initially been oppressing them through the injustices done to them in their daily lives.
Technology has also brought about the promotion of unity in the people as they live together. Duo and Harwell’s article shows that the Huawei company refused the discriminative language used in the Washington Post. The Huawei company claims that it cannot use its technologies to identify the ethnic groups of the people. It goes ahead to say that it is the company’s policy that everyone is treated with equality in terms of accessing the services provided by Huawei on its platforms as long as he /she is the customer regardless of the ethnic belonging. The Huawei spokesperson’s statement that they do not sell and develop systems that identify people to their ethnic groups is a show of how the technologies are focused on ensuring that there is no discrimination among the people.
According to Duo and Harwell’s article, the surveillance technology brought about by cloud computing, cameras, the vast assortment of servers, and the presence of the back-end technical tools has been so much important in the fighting for crime the china. The presence of the huge information about a person at a single time has helped the company to be able to keep on track the individuals and be able to track the information about any person to be able to know the history and predict the next possible move by the person. T as early as the conversation that can be tracked by the surveillance agencies and prevented from happening. According to Duo and Harwell, the Huawei and Chinese surveillance equipment used in China can detect any crowd that starts to form and gives the alert, hence prompting the appropriate action to be taken. According to the Chinese foreign minister, the use of facial and voice recognition in public areas leads to the improvement of social security in public places and helps prevent criminal activities and, in the process, develop strong social security for the people.
Though the technology has been praised, the human rights activists claim that the technologies that can detect people’s ethnicity can become a source for the injustices as it can lead to the persecution of the minority members of the society.