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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
February 11, 2020

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Coronavirus, Li Wenliang}

Coronavirus in a World Without Trust

_{In China, medical heroism thrives despite both paranoia and justified mistrust of authorities} _{Heather Zeiger

February 11, 2020

10

Medicine and Health, Surveillance}

While China’s citizens are living in an information vacuum, the government has stepped up its surveillance strategies in order to track people who have been near someone infected with the coronavirus. Some commentators consider these measures disproportionate to the actual risk posed to others and in violation of human rights. Others see them as necessary.

Rest in Peace Posters of Dr Li Wenliang, who warned authorities about the coronovirus outbreak seen at Hosier Lane in Melbourne, Australia. Hosier Lane is known for its street art.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
February 1, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Medicine and Health, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Coronavirus, Featured, Quarantine}

Censorship? But Coronavirus Doesn’t Care!

_{Back when SARS was a threat, social media wasn’t the giant it is today. Censorship, secrecy, and detention are less effective tools of control now} _{Heather Zeiger

February 1, 2020

10

Global Technology, Medicine and Health, Social Media, Surveillance}

Coronavirus provides a test. The Chinese Communist Party offers mainland Chinese people security and prosperity in exchange for the sacrifice of personal freedom. But when the government cannot uphold its end of the agreement—security—the people may become less tolerant of the human rights violations. And the age of information makes it much easier to discover them.

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post

Author
News
Date
January 23, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, European Union (EU), Facial Recognition, Hong Kong, Minorities, Racism, Uyghurs}

EU Mulls Five-Year Ban on Facial Recognition

_{Too soon, too fast, and not enough discussion of the objectives, say critics} _{News

January 23, 2020

5

Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Opposition is growing in the Western world to routine government use of facial recognition (FR) technologies. But it takes different forms in different places.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
January 18, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, China, Featured, Freedom of the press, Hong Kong, Journalists, Taiwan}

Can a Totalitarian State Be an Information Society?

_{Beijing’s clumsy social media campaigns against democracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan have failed but attempts to control local media are ramping up} _{Heather Zeiger

January 18, 2020

11

Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance}

Xi believes that the Western values of a free press, free speech, and separation of powers contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and that China must avoid them so as not to succumb to the same fate. But the Soviet Union fell just before the internet became today’s information superhighway.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
January 14, 2020

Categorized
Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, censorship, China, Featured, Journalists, media}

Serious Media In China Have Gone Strangely Silent

_{With a compulsory new app, the government can potentially access journalists’ phones, both for surveillance and capturing data} _{Heather Zeiger

January 14, 2020

9

Surveillance}

Liu Hu sums up the scene in a few words: “Outside of China, journalists are fired for writing false reports… Inside China, they are fired for telling the truth.”

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
December 26, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, China, DNA phenotyping, Featured, Uighurs, Uyghurs}

China: DNA Phenotyping Profiles Racial Minorities

_{In the United States, targeting minorities means political pushback; in China, no such discussion is allowed} _{Heather Zeiger

December 26, 2019

7

Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

While there is some merit to the idea that the population of a particular geographic region will have similar DNA patterns, this science comes with a host of assumptions that, when taken too far, crosses the line into pseudoscience.

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 20, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Global Technology

Tagged
China, Freedom of thought, Hong Kong, Intellectual freedom, totalitarianism}

Can a Totalitarian State Advance AI?

_{China vs. Hong Kong provides a test case} _{Denyse O'Leary

December 20, 2019

6

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Global Technology}

George Orwell identified two characteristics of a totalitarian state that offer insight into its central intellectual weaknesses.

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podcast

Author
Larry L. Linenschmidt and Robert J. Marks
Date
December 19, 2019

Tagged
AI Delusion (book), Algorithm-of-the-Gaps, AlphaGo, Ambiguity, Artificial Intelligence, China, Chinese Room, Creativity, David Gelernter, Deep Blue, ethics, Gary Smith, George Gilder, Go (game), IBM Watson, Jay Richards, Larry L. Linenschmidt, Neural networks, Peter Thiel, qualia, Reinforcement learning, Robert J. Marks, self-driving cars, Swarm intelligence}

The Unexpected and the Myth of Creative Computers – Part II

_{Larry L. Linenschmidt and Robert J. Marks

December 19, 2019

2}

Robert J. Marks talks with Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute about the misattribution of creativity and understanding to computers. This is Part 2 of 2 parts. Other Larry L. Linenschmidt podcasts from the Hill Country Institute are available at HillCountryInstitute.org. We appreciate the permission of the Hill Country Institute to rebroadcast this podcast on Mind Matters. Show Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 11, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology

Tagged
___longform, Australia, Canada, China, Featured, Hong Kong, New Zealand}

Weighing the Costs of China’s High-Tech Power

_{Western nations like New Zealand, Australia, and Canada must weigh Beijing’s demands carefully} _{Denyse O'Leary

December 11, 2019

10

Global Technology}

Smaller Western countries, dependent on high-tech cooperation and the promise of huge markets in China, have muted their protests over Hong Kong and even accept Chinese government censorship in their own territories. That can put them in conflict with their own stated values.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
December 3, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance

Tagged
___longform, Belt and Road, Central Asia, China, Featured, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan}

Why China Leans Hard on Central Asia

_{The region is critical to China’s ambitions, hence the generous offers of state-of-the-art surveillance technology} _{Heather Zeiger

December 3, 2019

11

Global Technology, Surveillance}

Where is all of the data going and where is it stored? The short answer is China. The Central Asian countries’ current laws do not adequately protect their citizens’ privacy. In fact, most countries in the world do not have adequate laws to deal with the potential harms of facial recognition technology.

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post

Author
News
Date
November 29, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong protests 2019}

How Tech Savvy Helps Hong Kong Hold Off China

_{Several other factors help, including spirituality and a sense of unique identity as Hongkongers} _{News

November 29, 2019

7

Global Technology, Religion, Surveillance, Technocracy}

The stakes are high. Hongkongers have been energized by the dramatic recent win for democracy at the polls. But so have the police.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
October 28, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Hong Kong}

Hi-Tech Freedom Game in Hong Kong

_{Technology can oppress a people group or it can give them a voice} _{Heather Zeiger

October 28, 2019

7

Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

In the end, technology, like any tool, depends on who wields it and whether they use it to help people or to control them.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
October 16, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance, Global Technology, Surveillance

Tagged
Activision Blizzard, apple, China, Daryl Morey, Denise Ho, Hong Kong protests 2019, James LeBron, National Basketball Association (NBA), NBA}

How Business in China Becomes Ethically Expensive

_{Hong Kong raises the cost of rights and freedoms rhetoric steeply. Many advocates are bowing out} _{Heather Zeiger

October 16, 2019

11

Business and Finance, Global Technology, Surveillance}

Apple had once positioned itself in opposition to Big Brother. The NBA had been a strong advocate of social justice. But with Hong Kong, they suddenly caved to Beijing. What’s at stake?

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
October 9, 2019

Categorized
Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, China, Featured, Hong Kong, Uyghurs}

Hong Kong: Face Mask Ban Fuels Fiercer Protest

_{The masks, like many of the protesters’ strategies, circumvent China’s omnipresent high-tech surveillance} _{Heather Zeiger

October 9, 2019

8

Surveillance, Technocracy}

The Chinese government may use violent behavior as a justification for obliterating the Hongkongers’ prized freedoms. As a possible precedent, the Uyghur people, as a whole, were painted as religious extremists, even though only about 1,000 people participated in violent protests.

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 1, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance, Global Technology, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Trade war, United States}

US vs. China: Trade Wars Kill Businesses Rather Than People

_{That’s why we don’t hear so many songs about them} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 1, 2019

4

Business and Finance, Global Technology, Technocracy}

Trade wars are important even if they often sound boring compared with other news. One panel at COSM will examine the underlying issues in the ongoing trade spats between the United States and China.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
September 23, 2019

Categorized
Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
China, Featured, Hong Kong protests 2019}

Can China Really Silence Hong Kong?

_{Hong Kong is tech-savvy and the protesters are adept at defeating even high-tech terrors} _{Heather Zeiger

September 23, 2019

7

Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Some protestors use umbrellas to block the view of newly installed surveillance cameras while others dismantle the electronics. Others place traffic cones over tear gas canisters and then neutralize the gas with water.

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
September 6, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance, Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance

Tagged
censorship, China, Surveillance, Uighurs}

The Unadvertised Cost of Doing Business with China

_{It’s a big market, with one Big Player, and some strange rules} _{Heather Zeiger

September 6, 2019

6

Business and Finance, Ethics, Global Technology, Surveillance}

In China, censorship includes democracy, human rights, sex, George Orwell’s 1984, and Winnie-the-Pooh (because the stuffed literary bear has been compared by some Chinese bloggers to their President). Such censorship, say many, minimizes the value of the internet. Read More ›

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post

Author
News
Date
August 29, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Medicine and Health, Technocracy, Work

Tagged
Australia, China, Nita Farahany, Smart Caps}

How Far Has AI Mindreading Come?

_{Further than we may think. And some trends are troubling} _{News

August 29, 2019

5

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Medicine and Health, Technocracy, Work}

It’s becoming easier all the time to read signals from the human brain. But there are few or no safeguards, even in the free world, on who has a right to use the information and how. Read More ›

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post

Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
August 26, 2019

Categorized
Data Privacy, Global Technology

Tagged
Baidu, biometrics, China, Surveillance, Uyghurs, Voice identification}

China: What You Didn’t Say Could Be Used Against You

_{An AI voiceprint could be used to generate words never said} _{Heather Zeiger

August 26, 2019

6

Data Privacy, Global Technology}

Given the Chinese government’s loose interpretation of “counterterrorism” actions, there is a concern that such voice cloning could be used to incriminate religious minorities or those who do not show appropriate loyalty to the governing CCP. Read More ›