Surveillance State

Let’s face it: China’s social credit system is disrupting traditional Confucian wisdom

Mass surveillance is often framed as a privacy rights issue. An alternative line of argument comes from ancient China.

Philip Ivanhoe, Aeon
· Jan 27, 2020 · 09:30 pm
How the internet first freed and then trapped Uighur Muslims in China

An anthropologist found different ways in which Chinese authorities used checkpoints, social media and smartphones to identify and control the group.

Darren Byler, The Conversation
· Sep 21, 2019 · 11:30 pm
AI systems, with their surveillance capabilities, are posing a threat to democracy

Even governments in countries with strong traditions of rule of law find themselves tempted to abuse these new abilities.

Steven Feldstein, The Conversation
· Apr 24, 2019 · 08:30 pm

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