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Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?

Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticatedand often brutalharnessing of data.

It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's War on Terror, and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.

Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building wit

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: 5/13/2024
      ISBN13: 9781250256690, 978-1250256690
      ISBN10: 1250256690
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?

      Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticatedand often brutalharnessing of data.

      It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's War on Terror, and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.

      Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building wit

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