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Padlock, China flag on a smartphone and China map, symbolizing the Great Firewall of China concept or GFW and all extreme Internet censorship in China

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 28, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Censorship

Tagged
Academy Awards, Anders Hammer, China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chloé Zhao, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), Do Not Split (film), Hong Kong, Internet Archive, Nomad (film), Oscars, Stanley Rosen, Wayback Machine}

The Academy Award Goes to… 404

_{Chinese citizens were suddenly no longer allowed to know of an Oscar for Best Director won by a Beijing-born woman, let alone see the film} _{Heather Zeiger

April 28, 2021

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Arts & Culture, Censorship}

As the hoopla from the 92nd Academy Awards last weekend fades, if you search for “Chloe Zhao” on Google, you’ll discover a curious thing: She is the first Asian director and second female director to win an Academy Award for best director, for her film Nomadland. Search for “Chloe Zhao” or her Chinese name, “Zhao Ting,” on Baidu in China and you’ll find “only scattered links to deleted articles about the Academy Award honor” (Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2021). Posts on Weibo and WeChat congratulating her were removed within minutes of the announcement of her win for best director. Rewriting the story in the U.S. Zhao (pictured) was born in Beijing, went to a boarding school in the U.K., Read More ›

The concept of biased views judged by appearances. Various miniature people standing behind the glasses.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
December 30, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance

Tagged
bias, China, Coded Bias (film), Facial Recognition, Featured, Hong Kong, Joy Buolamwini, Social Credit (China)}

How Bias Can Be Coded Into Unthinking Programs

_{MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini started the project as a trivial “bathroom mirror” message} _{Heather Zeiger

December 30, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance}

Coded Bias, a new documentary by 7th Empire Media that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020, looks at the ways algorithms and machine learning can perpetuate racism, sexism, and infringements on civil liberties. The film calls for accountability and transparency in artificial intelligence systems, which are algorithms that sift large amounts of data to make predictions, as well as regulations on how these systems can be used and who has access to the data. The documentary follows the path of MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini. Buolamwini took a class on science fiction and technology in which one of her assignments was to create a piece of technology that isn’t necessarily useful but is inspired by science fiction. Buolamwini Read More ›

iron chain and castle on the silk national flag of Hong Kong with beautiful folds, the concept of a ban on tourism, political repression, crime, violation of the rights and freedoms of citizens

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
July 9, 2020

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, Apple (company), China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Facebook, Featured, Google, Great Firewall, Hong Kong, Hong Kong National Security Law, Instagram, Microsoft, Telegram, Tik Tok, Twitter, WhatsApp, Zoom}

Hong Kong: Tech Companies Face Serious Ethical Decisions

_{As Hong Kong is transformed into a police state, Western companies, faced with demands for snitching on users, are rethinking cozy relationships with China} _{Heather Zeiger

July 9, 2020

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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

The semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong is no longer semi-autonomous, at least in practice. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), circumventing Hong Kong’s parliament and courts, passed the Hong Kong National Security Law on June 30 that effectively abolishes the “one country, two systems” regime outlined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The law was passed one day before the anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China (July 1, 1997), in time to quash any pro-democracy candidates who would likely win in the September elections. Although the CCP justifies its moves from the Hong Kong Basic Law and claims that Hong Kong will maintain autonomy, in practice, it has already arrested dissidents and formed a secretive agency called the Office Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
January 23, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, European Union (EU), Facial Recognition, Hong Kong, Minorities, Racism, Uyghurs}

EU Mulls Five-Year Ban on Facial Recognition

_{Too soon, too fast, and not enough discussion of the objectives, say critics} _{News

January 23, 2020

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Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Opposition is growing in the Western world to routine government use of facial recognition (FR) technologies. But it takes different forms in different places.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
January 18, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, China, Featured, Freedom of the press, 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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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 20, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Global Technology

Tagged
China, Freedom of thought, Hong Kong, Intellectual freedom, totalitarianism}

Can a Totalitarian State Advance AI?

_{China vs. Hong Kong provides a test case} _{Denyse O'Leary

December 20, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Global Technology}

George Orwell identified two characteristics of a totalitarian state that offer insight into its central intellectual weaknesses.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 11, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology

Tagged
___longform, Australia, Canada, China, Featured, Hong Kong, New Zealand}

Weighing the Costs of China’s High-Tech Power

_{Western nations like New Zealand, Australia, and Canada must weigh Beijing’s demands carefully} _{Denyse O'Leary

December 11, 2019

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Global Technology}

Smaller Western countries, dependent on high-tech cooperation and the promise of huge markets in China, have muted their protests over Hong Kong and even accept Chinese government censorship in their own territories. That can put them in conflict with their own stated values.

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Author
News
Date
November 29, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong protests 2019}

How Tech Savvy Helps Hong Kong Hold Off China

_{Several other factors help, including spirituality and a sense of unique identity as Hongkongers} _{News

November 29, 2019

7

Global Technology, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy}

The stakes are high. Hongkongers have been energized by the dramatic recent win for democracy at the polls. But so have the police.

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Author
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

8

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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Author
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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Author
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.