{"product_id":"9781250256690","title":"Surveillance State","description":"Author: Josh Chin\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781250256690\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: St Martins Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Aug 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/i\u003e tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIt is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s \"War on Terror,\" and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nAward-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party’s ambitions, \u003ci\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798797144222,"sku":"TLD-9781250256690","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781250256690.jpg?v=1778119272","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781250256690","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}