TEHRAN-- We Have Been Harmonized: Life in Chinas Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter has just recently been published by Qoqnus in Persian.Masud Yusef-Hasirchin is the translator of the book called a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post.As heard on NPRs Fresh Air , We Have Been Harmonized , by acclaimed correspondent Kai Strittmatter, uses an innovative look, based on years of research, at how China developed the most scary monitoring state in history.
Chinas brand-new drive for repression is being underpinned by unmatched advances in technology: facial and voice acknowledgment, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted mobile phone discussions, the tracking of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cams make it nearly impossible for a Chinese person to conceal anything from authorities.
Industrial transactions, including food shipments and online purchases, are fed into large databases, together with whatever from biometric info to social networks activities to techniques of contraception.
Electronic cameras, so advanced that they can locate a single person within a stadium crowd of 60,000, scan for faces and strolling patterns to track each individuals movement.
In some schools, childrens facial expressions are kept an eye on to make sure they are focusing at the correct times.
In a new Social Credit System, each resident is given a rating for great habits; for those who rate badly, penalties consist of being banned from flying or taking high-speed trains, exemption from particular tasks, and avoiding their kids from participating in much better schools.
And it becomes worse: innovative monitoring has actually resulted in the jail time of more than a million Chinese citizens in western China alone, many kept in exorbitant reeducation camps.This digital totalitarianism has been enabled not only with the help of Chinese private tech business, however the complicity of Western federal governments and corporations excited to access to Chinas substantial market.
And while governments debate trade wars and tariffs, the Chinese Communist Party and its local partners are aggressively stepping up their efforts to export their security technology abroad-- consisting of to the United States.
We Have Been Harmonized is a scary picture of life under unmatched federal government surveillance and a dire warning about what could take place anywhere under the pretense of nationwide security.Photo: A combination image reveals Kai Strittmatter and the front cover of the Persian edition of his book We Have Been Harmonized .
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