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Surveillance State

By Josh Chin

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Surveillance State

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Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated-and often brutal-harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's "War on Terror," and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party's ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway-a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.
Product details
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2022-09-06
Publication Date:
2022-09-06
Publisher:
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1250249295
ISBN13:
9781250249296
Weight:
516 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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