Hearing on Techno-Authoritarianism: Platform for Repression in China and Abroad

Описание: Techno-authoritarianism poses a serious threat to traditional notions of privacy, democratic governance models globally, and the future of an open and free internet. The Chinese government’s embrace of mass biometric collection technologies underpins the most pervasive surveillance state the world has ever seen. The Chinese model of extensive censorship and surveillance continues to spread to governments with poor human rights records that repress and control populations through technology made in China.

This hearing will look at the human rights and strategic impact of the technology of mass surveillance and censorship as employed and exported by the People’s Republic of China, including its use in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and efforts to influence and shape digital and telecommunications rulemaking and standard setting in international bodies.

WITNESSES:

Geoffrey Cain, author of The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

Samantha Hoffman, Senior Analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Yaqiu Wang, Senior Researcher on China, Human Rights Watch

Jonathan Hillman, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies and author of The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future