The perfect police state : an undercover odyssey into China's terrifying surveillance dystopia of the future

Author

Geoffrey Cain

Call Number

• 951.06 C1352 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Public Affairs, 2021.

Physical Description

xi, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang's Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State. Using the haunting story of one young woman's attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive firsthand testimony from exiles, Geoffrey Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures."--Amazon.

Contents

• The new dominion
• The panopticon
• Sky Net has found you
• China rises
• Deep neural network
• Do you think I am an automaton?
• The great rejuvenation
• China's war on terror
• The three evils : terrorism, extremism, and separatism
• People as data
• How to rank everyone on their trustworthiness
• The all-seeing eye
• Called to a concentration camp
• Mass internment
• The big brain
• The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy
• The prison of the mind
• A new cold war?
• The great rupture
• You're not safe anywhere.