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China’s giant new gamble with digital IDs
It augments China’s radically different approach to managing and surveilling the digital lives of its citizens. And it may ...
The Economist1y
China’s enormous surveillance state is still growing - The Economist
Measuring the size and growth of China’s surveillance state is hard, owing to the government’s secrecy, but analysts are trying. A team led by Martin Beraja of the Massachusetts Institute of ...
The Independent5y
China moves towards ‘digital totalitarian state’ as surveillance technology continues to advance - The Independent
China is ramping up its ability to spy on its nearly 1.4 billion people to new and disturbing levels, giving the world a blueprint for how to build a digital totalitarian state.. Chinese ...
'Surveillance on Steroids': China's New National Internet ID Will Track Every Click, Post and Login
China's new national internet ID system, 'surveillance on steroids,' will track every click, post, and login, centralising ...
MIT Technology Review2y
The Chinese surveillance state proves that the idea of privacy is more “malleable” than you’d expect - MIT Technology Review
The authors of "Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.
The Boston Globe2y
A warning from China’s surveillance state: It could happen here
Whether state surveillance is terrifying or alluring depends on who and where you are. Middle-class Han Chinese people living in the country’s wealthier cities mostly experience it as a good thing ...
Wired7mon
China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
China has long been a billion-plus-person experiment in total state surveillance, with virtually no legal checks on the government's ability to physically and digitally monitor its citizens.When ...
The New York Times2y
China’s Surveillance State Encounters Public Resistance - The New York Times
China’s Surveillance State Hits Rare Resistance From Its Own Subjects. Beijing’s swift move to censor news about one of the largest known data breaches shows keen awareness of how major ...
National Security Journal on MSN5d
China’s B-2 Stealth Bomber Nightmare Has Now Just Begun
The recent US B-2 stealth bomber strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has spurred a significant new intelligence-gathering ...