South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid

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As firms have dumped their AI technologies into the country, it’s created a blueprint for how to surveil citizens and serves as a warning to the world.

South Africa's private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content This story is part one of MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, the idea that artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order. It was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full series here. The cameras are not there yet. But the fiber already is. Thami Nkosi points to the telltale black box atop a utility pole on a street once home to two Nobel Peace Prize laureates : South Africa’s first Blac

South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid

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