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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Strittmatter, Kai.     Subjects     Electronic surveillance -- China.     Electronic surveillance.     Totalitarianism -- China.     Privacy, Right of -- China.     Civil rights -- China.     Technology -- China.     Technology -- China -- International cooperation.     China -- Politics and government.     China -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strittmatter, Kai.       by title:      We have been harmoni...       by call number:      951.06 S918w     Search the Web     Strittmatter, Kai.     Electronic surveillance -- China.     Electronic surveillance.     Totalitarianism -- China.     Privacy, Right of -- China.     Civil rights -- China.     Technology -- China.     Technology -- China -- International cooperation.     China -- Politics and government.     China -- Social conditions.       MARC Display

We have been harmonized : life in China's surveillance state / Kai Strittmatter. by Strittmatter, Kai. Custom House, 2020. Call #: 951.06 S918w Subjects Electronic surveillance -- China.   Electronic surveillance.   Totalitarianism -- China.   Privacy, Right of -- China.   Civil rights -- China.   Technology -- China.   Technology -- China -- International cooperation.   China -- Politics and government.   China -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9780063027299 (hc.) Alternate title:  China's surveillance state Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  vi, 360 p. ; 24 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in Germany in 2018 by Piper Verlag GmbH." "First English publication in Great Britain in 2019 by Old Street Publishing." Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360). Summary:  "An award-winning China correspondent reveals how George Orwell’s chilling vision of authoritarianism in 1984 is being outdone by China's rulers."--Jacket. "Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the inter­net and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. China’s new drive for repression is being underpinned by unpre­cedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone conver­sations, 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 individual’s move­ment. In some schools, children’s 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 “reeducation” camps. This digital totalitarianism has been made possible not only with the help of Chinese private tech companies, but the complic­ity of Western governments and corporations eager to gain access to China’s 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 abroad—including to the United States. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance—and a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security."--Publisher's website. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.06 S918w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 951.06 S918w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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