Protests, Pandemics, and Privacy: The Rise of Surveillance States
summary
China deploys facial recognition, Nanny apps that scan Quran verses, and QR-based Alipay Health Code gates that issue green/yellow/red access; Xinjiang sees 1 million disappeared and phone monitoring tied to checkpoints. U.S. relies on commercial data and startups like Clearview AI to ID thousands (a student matched 6,000 faces from ~800 Parler videos), drones and satellites (HawkEye 360 and SpaceX launches) make global tracking cheap and near-continuous.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Surveillance state futures
- 1:30China’s digital authoritarianism
- 6:28US Capitol surveillance
- 8:34Pandemic surveillance responses
- 13:57US privacy conflicts
- 16:05China’s surveillance history
- 18:08Technology eroding privacy
- 21:45Surveillance tech evolution
- 23:56Sensor networks everywhere
- 25:21AI facial recognition
- 26:51China’s AI dominance
- 27:56Surveillance tech competition
- 28:59US democratic erosion
- 30:03Hopeful surveillance uses
- 31:05Call to action
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