Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped

Terror capitalism uses tools such as facial recognition to extract profits from marginalized people. Big tech and governments are collaborating

When Gulzira Aeulkhan finally fled China for Kazakhstan early last year, she still suffered debilitating headaches and nausea. She didn't know if this was a result of the guards at an internment camp hitting her in the head with an electric baton for spending more than two minutes on the toilet, or from the enforced starvation diet.

Maybe it was simply the horror she had witnessed - the sounds of women screaming when they were beaten, their silence when they returned to the cell.