The state of strict regime. Kane J.

China built the most sophisticated system of total control over the population in the history of mankind. The landfill for this experiment was Sinjiang-a region in the north-west of the country, where Turkic-speaking Uyghurs live. Digital technologies gave the state unprecedented opportunities to oversee and punish: from the ubiquitous cameras of video surveillance with the function of recognizing faces to Internet sites and algorithms, which allegedly can predict future crimes.

Say or do something that the authorities will not like-and you can go to the camp or disappear without a trace. American journalist Jeffrey Kane visited Xinjiang, and also talked with dozens of Uyghur refugees - researchers, activists and ordinary people who managed to break out of the police state.

This book is a unique certificate of life within anti -utopia and a powerful warning about how authoritarian regimes in alliance with technological corporations threaten our freedom.