The curious minds at ColdFusion examine the staggering scope of China’s surveillance system and what it means for privacy.

China is building an all-seeing, total digital surveillance state. Xi Jinping and the CCP seek cameras, facial recognition, ...

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.

China's huge state surveillance system has developed into a double-edged sword. Designed to track more than one billion citizens with unprecedented precision, it has inadvertently fueled a ...

Students sitting for the notoriously grueling gaokao were subject to intensive surveillance, and AI companies appeared to ...

Since China has aggressively deployed AI-powered facial recognition to support its own surveillance state, we recently set out to explore the patterns and political consequences of trade in these ...

Students faced strict surveillance, including drones and metal detectors.

A new wave of deadly attacks is putting pressure on officials to expand that surveillance state. China was stunned this month by its deadliest act of public violence since a string of terrorism ...

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush once remarked that, “No nation on Earth has discovered a way to import the world’s goods and services while stopping foreign ideas at the border.” ...