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Flock and oversight: Trust is harder to build after the fact

August 13, 2026
By Guest Columnist

BY BRENT MCCONNELL In 2008, I was the U.S. national security lead for technology transfer to China. Long before the Beijing Olympics opened, many requests for advanced technology export licenses for cameras built to watch crowds and identify faces landed on my desk. The requests said they were for Olympic security. Fair enough, I thought. […]

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