A high-tech authoritarian future for China's mainland

[labbe5]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/busi ... ology.html

With millions of cameras and billions of lines of code, China is building a high-tech authoritarian future. Beijing is embracing technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence to identify and track 1.4 billion people. It wants to assemble a vast and unprecedented national surveillance system.

China is reversing the commonly held vision of technology as a great democratizer, bringing people more freedom and connecting them to the world. In China, it has brought control.

[nosystemdthanks]

China is reversing the commonly held vision of technology as a great democratizer, bringing people more freedom and connecting them to the world. In China, it has brought control.

come now, its china and facebook and google and microsoft https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/commen ... _to_track/ and apple who are doing that.

but yeah, china is pretty bad, meaning awful.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... esident-xi

https://citizenlab.ca/2018/08/an-analys ... -projects/

[rufwoof]

Buses, rail, tube/subway, street corners, buildings ... etc over here in London/UK already have facial recognition/monitoring devices. Roads have registration plate recognition. Financial transaction, mobile phone location ... etc.

Mostly introduced on the basis of it being anti-terrorism. Monitored to the extent of eradicating fraud (false state claims, inaccurate tax declarations ..etc.).

But induces the equivalent of a open-prison. The benefits to State's supposedly outweigh the cost (loss of individual freedom). Subject to a states policies/practices.

[nosystemdthanks]

But induces the equivalent of a open-prison. The benefits to State's supposedly outweigh the cost

THE STATE IS YOUR FRIEND, ITS CRITICS ARE SCUM!

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