VSquare: Orbán could have agreed with China to have facial recognition cameras installed in Hungary

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1. Translation:

   Although the two sides have not made it public along with other security agreements, including one on Chinese police patrolling in Hungary, the Chinese may install surveillance cameras with advanced AI, such as facial recognition software, in Hungary during the meeting between President Viktor Orban and Chinese President Xi Jinping, VSquare writes in its latest newsletter, citing sources with insight into the Sino-Hungarian talks.

   According to VSquare, even if the only purpose of Chinese surveillance cameras is to monitor Chinese investments, institutions and their employees, NATO allies may be concerned about the involvement of tech companies linked to the Chinese military/intelligence, even under Western sanctions.

   In Belgrade, the installation of Chinese Huawei’s facial recognition surveillance cameras started in 2019, and although the facial recognition feature is not officially used, the authorities have used it to fine protesters. Telex recalled that other cities in Serbia have installed surveillance systems from the Chinese company Dahua, which has been on the US sanctions list since 2019 because Dahua is suspected of developing the software used by the Chinese government to monitor and detain the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in re-education camps.

   According to VSquare, Orban can agree with China on these issues because there is no agreement in the V4 on how to deal with them. Slovakia, like Hungary, has an open attitude towards Russia and China, Poland is more anti-Putin but more permissive towards China, while the Czech Republic is hostile to both.

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2. What does Hungary, or probably more likely Orban, get out of these agreements with China?

3. Think if I offer Orban $20 I can be a government official in Hungary for a day? I mean hes already selling the country out, may as well get some fun personal trivia facts while I can

4. man and Hungary is in Schengen. Can we suspend their membership? This is ridiculous

5. EU: This is horrible!

   Also EU: Let’s mass surveillance all kind of communications online!

6. I am sure logically there are 1001 reasons why this is bad for both Hungary and EU, but is there some legal/institutional penalty for introducing foreign surveillance tech into Schengen area?

7. Bro what has Hungary become? holy shit this is worse than i thought.

   He could have as well agreed to sell the whole country to China at this point, it more or less seems like it already did.

8. The Orban regime is clearly intending to go full totalitarian. In a few years it’ll be tracking all Hungarians. Then a social credit score will be introduced. Then it’s game over.

9. Case in point: right wing nationalists who bitch about “freedom” and “oppresion from the establishment” are really the one who do the oppresion. Happens every time.

10. Orban out here sucking all the dicks.

11. Chingary now.

12. Did he also import Execution Vans or just the Facist Social Credit

13. No prob, I am sure GDPR will protect me.

14. Another day the EU allows Orban undermining the EU.

15. The only reason to do that is to keep the opponents and of course its citizens under control. Without state databases, facial recognition does not work. It is literally internal control.

16. Another great day to be hungarian

17. Call Vicky Nuland, it’s color revolution and regime change time.

18. Is there any dignity left in this country?