For Hong Kong protesters, masks shield against Big Brother

HONG KONG (AP) — The now-banned masks Hong Kong protesters use to conceal their identities are a consequence of living in the shadow of Big Brother.
Across the border that separates Hong Kong from the rest of China, high-tech surveillance is ubiquitous, with facial recognition, forests of cameras, and other privacy-penetrating tools.
Becoming a tightly controlled city like all the others in China, its special freedoms extinguished, is the future that protesters say they’re fighting t