DarkMatter Signs Strategic Surveillance Technology Agreement with Huawei, Facilitated by Erik Prince Network

DarkMatter, the UAE-based private intelligence company employing former U.S. intelligence operatives, signed a Global Strategic Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei for “Big Data” systems and “Smart City” surveillance solutions. The agreement, signed during Huawei’s Global Safe City Summit 2017 in Dubai, combined Pegasus’ (a DarkMatter subsidiary) big data analytics applications with Huawei’s FusionInsight platform and Public Safety Cloud solution for comprehensive urban surveillance systems.

The MOU created a direct technology transfer channel from Western intelligence-designed surveillance systems (developed by DarkMatter’s American and British intelligence veterans) to Chinese state-controlled Huawei, with Erik Prince serving as a documented “mercenary middle-man” facilitating connections between UAE and Chinese interests. The timing proved significant: the agreement occurred immediately before China dramatically escalated its total surveillance apparatus and mass detention campaign against Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.

China’s Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP), deployed in Xinjiang following the DarkMatter-Huawei agreement, employed strikingly similar capabilities to the joint UAE-Chinese surveillance platform: monitoring personal conversations, tracking power usage, remotely activating cameras and microphones, and generating automated suspect lists for detention based on AI analysis of behavioral data. During one week in June 2017, the IJOP system flagged 24,412 “suspicious” persons in southern Xinjiang, with 15,683 sent to “education and training” camps and 706 “criminally detained.”

The DarkMatter-Huawei agreement represented systematic technology transfer of Western surveillance capabilities to Chinese state control, with the memorandum occurring at the precise inflection point before China’s surveillance state expansion in Xinjiang. The “Smart City” and “Safe City” branding concealed comprehensive mass surveillance infrastructure capable of tracking all communications, movements, and activities of entire urban populations. The UAE-China technology partnership, facilitated by Prince’s networks connecting American intelligence expertise, Emirati state interests, and Chinese strategic goals, created a transnational surveillance architecture operating beyond any single nation’s oversight with no restrictions on transfer to autocratic regimes that regularly violate human rights.