China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. This Wall Street Journal video (December 20, 2017) shows what life is like inside a surveillance state.
The BBC (December 25, 2017) published a video China: "The World's Biggest Camera Surveillance Network" that also discusses surveillance of people in China.
The surveillance state continues to grow. The locations, relations, interactions, and associations of people are being collected and filed away in government databases. Some might argue that surveillance makes us safer, but this is not the case.
A February 2, 2018 article in The Atlantic "China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone" discusses how China is perfecting a vast network of digital espionage as a means of social control—with implications for democracies worldwide.
And on July 26, 2018 the German magazine Spiegel wrote about China, A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen.
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