The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future,Geoffrey Cain

-About this book

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants that made it possible.
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.

-Contents

Dedication

Note on Research and on Uyghur and Han Chinese Names

Prologue: The Situation

1—The New Dominion

2—The Panopticon

3—Sky Net Has Found You

4—China Rises

5—Deep Neural Network

6—Do You Think I Am an Automaton?

7—The Great Rejuvenation

8—China’s War on Terror

9—The Three Evils: Terrorism, Extremism, and Separatism

10—People as Data

11—How to Rank Everyone on Their Trustworthiness

12—The All-Seeing Eye

13—Called to a Concentration Camp

14—Mass Internment

15—The Big Brain

16—The Bureaucracy Is Expanding to Meet the Needs of the Expanding Bureaucracy

17—The Prison of the Mind

18—A New Cold War?

19—The Great Rupture

20—You’re Not Safe Anywhere

Coda: Stop the Panopticon

Acknowledgments

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:29 juin 2021

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ PublicAffairs

Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais

NB.de pages : ‎ 304 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541757033

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1541757035

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 410 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.13 x 3.43 x 24.26 cm