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Can big data replace free speech? China is keen to try
- Wednesday | 22nd August, 2018
From time to time Disruptive.Asia posts stories about China’s increasing use of digital technologies like big data, AI and facial recognition to create a digital panopticon state of sorts. And it’s hard to imagine how China or any other authoritarian regime could use big data to discern the people’s wishes and needs with a closed, opaque system that’s all too vulnerable to bad data. What information is available is deeply flawed; systematic falsification of data on everything from GDP growth to hydropower use pervades Chinese government statistics. That said, I can’t imagine Beijing would let a detail like this stop them from trying. And how does a government that doesn’t invite its citizens to participate still engender trust and bend public behavior without putting police on every doorstep?
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