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Surveillance State

China’s chatbots will have to toe the Party line

April 3, 2023March 29, 2023 by Fan Yang

Baidu’s ERNIE Bot will not be a substitute for ChatGPT – but that might be how the Chinese state wants it

Categories Big Tech Tags Baidu, Censorship, ChatGPT, Communist Party of China, News, Surveillance State, Tencent, The Conversation, The Long Read Leave a comment

Covid-19 big data and China’s Big Brother state

September 3, 2021August 31, 2021 by Ausma Bernot Alexander Trauth-Goik Sue Trevaskes

Concerns grow that Beijing will use Covid-19 tracing technology to increase state surveillance

Categories Tech Risk Tags Beijing, Communist Party of China, Covid-19 Crisis, Privacy Risks, State Council, Surveillance State, The Conversation, The Long Read Leave a comment

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