It is a big promise from Silicon Valley to a nation looking for ways to be freed from home confinement: … More
Tag: digital democracy
By Design: The China That Emerges After Coronavirus Will Be A Cashless Society
Freezing cross-province transfers and replacing $86 billion in paper yuan is only consolidating a process of surveillance where Beijing can … More
New Patent Filed By Amazon Shows Intent To Continually Record With ‘Always On’ Application
We accept that our laptops and smart televisions are recording the choices we make and sending them we know not … More
Tech-Savvy Protesters Go Digitally-Dark In Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s tech-savvy protesters are going digitally dark as they try to avoid surveillance and potential future prosecutions, disabling location … More
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
According to Google’s Ngram Viewer, which measures the appearance in books of a given phrase over time, the word “surveillance”—from … More
Christians ‘Standing In The Way Of Totalitarian Rule’
It was 40 years ago this week that China opened its doors to the world and launched a series of … More
Is Tech Billionaire Jack Ma Using AI To Create Dystopian Cities?
On the outskirts of Hangzhou, eastern China, in Alibaba’s Cloud Town, a Silicon Valley-style working and leisure hub, cutting-edge research … More
China’s New Tech Oppression: 24/7 Surveillance, Social Scorecards Almost Complete
CHINA’S chilling dictatorship is moving quickly to introduce social scorecards by which all citizens will be monitored 24/7 and ranked … More
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