Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Surveillance State Inside China's Quest To Launch A New Era Of Social Control
Author(s): Lin Liza
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250256690
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Political Control & Freedoms