IBM Sells Technology to a Dictatorship…Again

IBM is no stranger to selling stuff to dictators. First it was the Nazis, now it’s the United Arab Emirates.
But even as [facial recognition] technology comes under more scrutiny in the United States, tech giants such as IBM, and China’s Hikvision and Huawei, are marketing biometric surveillance systems in the UAE, where citizens have fewer options to push back. The UAE has used cellphone hacking software to spy on hundreds of dissidents, journalists, and suspected criminals, and has invested heavily in surveillance technology, according to human rights groups and international media reports.