China's 'One Person, One File': Road to digital totalitarianism

The Shanghai authorities have proposed the "One Person, One File" (OPOF) mass surveillance program, which aims to triple the deployment of facial recognition cameras and compile exhaustive personal data files on every resident. This escalation of China's efforts to create ruthless digital censorship is more than just another Benthamite panopticon, it is an attempt to construct an omniscient digital surrogate for every Chinese citizen, encoding each person's relationships, activities, behaviors, and existence into ones and zeroes for the Party's domineering oversight.

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