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Heather Zeiger
Date
February 26, 2020

Categorized
Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Uyghurs, Xinjiang}

China: Sophisticated Surveillance Decides Who Gets Sent to Uyghur Camps

_{The leak of documents from police in Karakax County in Xinjiang reveal the details of everyday life that can send a Uyghur to the camps} _{Heather Zeiger
February 26, 2020

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Surveillance, Technocracy}

The tracking app used by the police aggregates all of the data of people living in Xinjiang. Based on the parameters, or “micro-clues” that police put in the app, prompts the user to collect additional details or determines whether that person should be detained. This could include “not socializing with neighbors, often avoiding using the front door,” or using more electricity than others.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
February 11, 2020

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Coronavirus, Li Wenliang}

Coronavirus in a World Without Trust

_{In China, medical heroism thrives despite both paranoia and justified mistrust of authorities} _{Heather Zeiger
February 11, 2020

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Medicine and Health, Surveillance}

While China’s citizens are living in an information vacuum, the government has stepped up its surveillance strategies in order to track people who have been near someone infected with the coronavirus. Some commentators consider these measures disproportionate to the actual risk posed to others and in violation of human rights. Others see them as necessary.

Rest in Peace Posters of Dr Li Wenliang, who warned authorities about the coronovirus outbreak seen at Hosier Lane in Melbourne, Australia. Hosier Lane is known for its street art.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
February 1, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Medicine and Health, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Coronavirus, Featured, Quarantine}

Censorship? But Coronavirus Doesn’t Care!

_{Back when SARS was a threat, social media wasn’t the giant it is today. Censorship, secrecy, and detention are less effective tools of control now} _{Heather Zeiger
February 1, 2020

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Global Technology, Medicine and Health, Social Media, Surveillance}

Coronavirus provides a test. The Chinese Communist Party offers mainland Chinese people security and prosperity in exchange for the sacrifice of personal freedom. But when the government cannot uphold its end of the agreement—security—the people may become less tolerant of the human rights violations. And the age of information makes it much easier to discover them.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
January 18, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, China, Featured, Hong Kong, Journalists, Taiwan}

Can a Totalitarian State Be an Information Society?

_{Beijing’s clumsy social media campaigns against democracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan have failed but attempts to control local media are ramping up} _{Heather Zeiger
January 18, 2020

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Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance}

Xi believes that the Western values of a free press, free speech, and separation of powers contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and that China must avoid them so as not to succumb to the same fate. But the Soviet Union fell just before the internet became today’s information superhighway.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
January 14, 2020

Categorized
Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Featured, Journalists, media}

Serious Media In China Have Gone Strangely Silent

_{With a compulsory new app, the government can potentially access journalists’ phones, both for surveillance and capturing data} _{Heather Zeiger
January 14, 2020

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Surveillance}

Liu Hu sums up the scene in a few words: “Outside of China, journalists are fired for writing false reports… Inside China, they are fired for telling the truth.”

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Heather Zeiger
Date
December 26, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, China, Featured, Uighurs, Uyghurs}

China: DNA Phenotyping Profiles Racial Minorities

_{In the United States, targeting minorities means political pushback; in China, no such discussion is allowed} _{Heather Zeiger
December 26, 2019

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Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

While there is some merit to the idea that the population of a particular geographic region will have similar DNA patterns, this science comes with a host of assumptions that, when taken too far, crosses the line into pseudoscience.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
December 3, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, Belt and Road, China, Featured, Russia}

Why China Leans Hard on Central Asia

_{The region is critical to China’s ambitions, hence the generous offers of state-of-the-art surveillance technology} _{Heather Zeiger
December 3, 2019

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Global Technology, Surveillance}

Where is all of the data going and where is it stored? The short answer is China. The Central Asian countries’ current laws do not adequately protect their citizens’ privacy. In fact, most countries in the world do not have adequate laws to deal with the potential harms of facial recognition technology.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
November 19, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Featured, Hong Kong, Uighurs}

Hong Kong: The Dread That Lies Ahead

_{They fear the fate of the Uyghurs, under "complete video surveillance"} _{Heather Zeiger
November 19, 2019

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Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

They dread 2047 when Hong Kong comes completely under the jurisdiction of the Communist Party and is subject to the CCP’s rule of law rather than Hong Kong’s own laws under the current “one country, two systems” regime.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
November 8, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Hong Kong}

Tiananmen Square 30 Years On: Words Still Have Power

_{Back then, students fought oppression via the fax. They depended on free media in Hong Kong to tell the world} _{Heather Zeiger
November 8, 2019

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Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance, Technocracy}

The Chinese government has described the Hong Kong protests as violent riots by extremists. And, as with mainland China’s reports on Tiananmen Square, the abuses by police in Hong Kong have been scrubbed from the Chinese internet, while violence by protesters has been highlighted.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
October 28, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Hong Kong}

Hi-Tech Freedom Game in Hong Kong

_{Technology can oppress a people group or it can give them a voice} _{Heather Zeiger
October 28, 2019

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Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

In the end, technology, like any tool, depends on who wields it and whether they use it to help people or to control them.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
October 16, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance, Global Technology, Surveillance

Tagged
apple, China, Denise Ho, Hong Kong protests 2019, National Basketball Association (NBA), NBA}

How Business in China Becomes Ethically Expensive

_{Hong Kong raises the cost of rights and freedoms rhetoric steeply. Many advocates are bowing out} _{Heather Zeiger
October 16, 2019

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Business and Finance, Global Technology, Surveillance}

Apple had once positioned itself in opposition to Big Brother. The NBA had been a strong advocate of social justice. But with Hong Kong, they suddenly caved to Beijing. What’s at stake?

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Heather Zeiger
Date
October 9, 2019

Categorized
Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, China, Featured, Hong Kong, Uyghurs}

Hong Kong: Face Mask Ban Fuels Fiercer Protest

_{The masks, like many of the protesters’ strategies, circumvent China’s omnipresent high-tech surveillance} _{Heather Zeiger
October 9, 2019

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Surveillance, Technocracy}

The Chinese government may use violent behavior as a justification for obliterating the Hongkongers’ prized freedoms. As a possible precedent, the Uyghur people, as a whole, were painted as religious extremists, even though only about 1,000 people participated in violent protests.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
September 23, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Featured, Hong Kong protests 2019}

Can China Really Silence Hong Kong?

_{Hong Kong is tech-savvy and the protesters are adept at defeating even high-tech terrors} _{Heather Zeiger
September 23, 2019

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Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Some protestors use umbrellas to block the view of newly installed surveillance cameras while others dismantle the electronics. Others place traffic cones over tear gas canisters and then neutralize the gas with water.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
September 6, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance, Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance

Tagged
censorship, China, Surveillance, Uighurs}

The Unadvertised Cost of Doing Business with China

_{It’s a big market, with one Big Player, and some strange rules} _{Heather Zeiger
September 6, 2019

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Business and Finance, Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance}

In China, censorship includes democracy, human rights, sex, George Orwell’s 1984, and Winnie-the-Pooh (because the stuffed literary bear has been compared by some Chinese bloggers to their President). Such censorship, say many, minimizes the value of the internet. Read More ›

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Heather Zeiger
Date
August 26, 2019

Categorized
Data Privacy, Global Technology

Tagged
Baidu, biometrics, China, Surveillance, Uyghurs}

China: What You Didn’t Say Could Be Used Against You

_{An AI voiceprint could be used to generate words never said} _{Heather Zeiger
August 26, 2019

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Data Privacy, Global Technology}

Given the Chinese government’s loose interpretation of “counterterrorism” actions, there is a concern that such voice cloning could be used to incriminate religious minorities or those who do not show appropriate loyalty to the governing CCP. Read More ›

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Heather Zeiger
Date
August 5, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Technocracy

Tagged
Biometric databases, China, DNA analysis, Featured, Uyghurs}

In China, high-tech racial profiling is social policy

_{For an ethnic minority, a physical checkup includes blood samples, fingerprints, iris scans, and voice recordings} _{Heather Zeiger
August 5, 2019

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Global Technology, Technocracy}

The Chinese government seeks a database of everyone in the country, not only to track individuals but to determine the ethnicity of those who run up against the law.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
July 23, 2019

Categorized
Religion, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Featured, Surveillance, Uyghurs}

The Internet Doesn’t Free Anyone by Itself

_{China is testing 100% surveillance on the Uighurs, a strategically critical minority} _{Heather Zeiger
July 23, 2019

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Religion, Social Media, Technocracy}

The Uyghur people in Xinjiang province in northwest China spend their lives in a digital panopticon. Over 2.5 million Muslims are tracked via facial recognition software and cameras, and their cell phone monitored for any language that could be construed as religious. Over a million have been placed in so-called “vocational training centers” that are widely described as detention camps. Even when not detained, they live like prisoners: For Uyghurs in Xinjiang, any kind of contact from a non-Chinese phone number, though not officially illegal, can result in instant arrest. Most Uyghurs in Turkey have been deleted by their families on social media. And many wouldn’t dare try to make contact, for fear Chinese authorities would punish their relatives. Isobel Read More ›