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- Title: We Have Been Harmonized
- Author : Kai Strittmatter
- Release Date : January 01, 2020
- Genre: World Affairs,Books,Politics & Current Events,Political Science,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1953 KB
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Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post
As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, based on decades of research, at how China created the most terrifying surveillance state in history.
Chinaās new drive for repression is being underpinned by unpreĀcedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone converĀsations, the monitoring of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions, including food deliveries and online purchases, are fed into vast databases, along with everything from biometric information to social media activities to methods of birth control. Cameras (so advanced that they can locate a single person within a stadium crowd of 60,000) scan for faces and walking patterns to track each individualās moveĀment. In some schools, childrenās facial expressions are monitored to make sure they are paying attention at the right times. In a new Social Credit System, each citizen is given a score for good behavior; for those who rate poorly, punishments include being banned from flying or taking high-speed trains, exclusion from certain jobs, and preventing their children from attending better schools. And it gets worse: advanced surveillance has led to the imprisonment of more than a million Chinese citizens in western China alone, many held in draconian āreeducationā camps.
This digital totalitarianism has been made possible not only with the help of Chinese private tech companies, but the complicĀity of Western governments and corporations eager to gain access to Chinaās huge market. And while governments debate trade wars and tariffs, the Chinese Communist Party and its local partners are aggressively stepping up their efforts to export their surveillance technology abroadāincluding to the United States.
We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillanceāand a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security.
āTerrifying. ā¦ A warning call." āThe Sunday Times (UK), a āBest Book of the Year so Farā
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