Josh Chin, Liza Lin

Surveillance State (eBook, ePUB)

Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250249302
• Artikelnr.: 60785714

Autorenporträt

Josh Chin and Liza Lin

Inhaltsangabe

Authors' Note
Introduction: Dystopia on the Doorstep
Part I: The Platform
1. "Critical Data"
2. Engineers of the Soul
Part II: Back to the Future
3. Man and Machine
4. The China Dream
5. Little Brothers
6. Datatopia
Part III: Trade Winds
7. Digital Silk Road
8. Partners in Pre-Crime
9. Homeland Security
Part IV: The China Solution
10. Privacy Redefined
11. The Panopticon and Potemkin AI
12. Contagion
13. New Order?
Epilogue: Exile
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Note on Sources and Names
Notes
Index