I have a friend that worked developing Internet in Equatorial Guinea around 2014. He told me that in a couple of occasions, Chinese teams came there to install surveillance systems.
So this is already happening.
Countries that started from zero have an advantage over western countries: no legacy systems to interact with. Just brand new apps
Will AWS have it? Will they call this service the AWS HomeWatch? Can we use it to spy on our pizza and see why delivery is taking so long?