China Boosts Surveillance State Using (Not) Big Data
In a not surprising turn of events, China is employing ever more sophisticated technologies in its surveillance apparatus to allow authorities to profile and monitor individuals based on real-world and online behaviour and financial transactions. Chinese authorities are looking for deviations from the norm to detect suspicious activity, and they’re using tools that we in the West would find too familiar.
China is employing what has come to be known as “predictive policing” capabilities, of the same kind that are now used in many US and European police departments. Not eager to rely solely on western tech, China is investing heavily in research into homegrown artificial intelligence technologies that can predict “security events.” These events can be anything from a large-scale terrorist attack to an unauthorised gathering of people.
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