Data Leviathan : China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/16/data-leviathan-chinas-burgeoning-surveillance-state
Classical totalitarianism, in which the state controls all institutions and most aspects of public life, largely died with the Soviet Union, apart from a few holdouts such as North Korea. The Chinese Communist Party retained a state monopoly in the political realm but allowed a significant private economy to flourish. Yet today, in Xinjiang, a region in China’s northwest, a new totalitarianism is emerging—one built not on state ownership of enterprises or property but on the state’s intrusive (...)
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