We Have Been Harmonized Life in China's Surveillance State

Kai Strittmatter

eBook - 2020

Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington PostAs 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. China'snew drive for repression is being underpinned by unpre­cedented advances intechnology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputerdatabases, intercepted cell phone conver­sations, the monitoring of app use,and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible fora Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions,including food deliveries and online purchases, are fed i...nto vast databases,along with everything from biometric information to social media activities tomethods of birth control. Cameras (so advanced that they... more