{"product_id":"surveillance-state-by-josh-chin-9781250256690","title":"Surveillance State","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAward-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, \u003cem\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244436336876,"sku":"9781250256690","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250256690-surveillance-state-1.jpg?v=1787995849","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/surveillance-state-by-josh-chin-9781250256690","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}