China - Surveillance state or way of the future? | DW Documentary

Dr.Docs' Take

DW inside China's surveillance state, the vast digital system that scores citizens and rewards the compliant, which critics call the most ambitious Orwellian project in history. The genuinely chilling part, and the film knows it, is how many people actively like it. Convenience is the friendliest cage ever built. Watch it and notice how much of this same architecture is already quietly running in your own pocket.

China is building a huge digital surveillance system. The state collects massive amounts of data from willing citizens: the benefits are practical, and people who play by the rules are rewarded. Critics call it "the most ambitious Orwellian project in human history." China's digital surveillance system involves massive amounts of data being gathered by the state. In the so-called "brain" of Shanghai, for example, authorities have an eye on everything.

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