Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial recognition cameras, emotion detectors, citizen rating systems, autonomous drones… A security obsession that in some countries is giving rise to a new form of political regime: numerical totalitarianism. Orwell's nightmare.
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: counterterrorism , documentary , ethnic-minority , high-tech-surveillance , high-technology , human-rights , mass-surveillance , political-documentary , political-repression , privacy , social-awareness , social-documentary , social-justice , social-security , state-crimes , stealth-technology , surveillance , surveillance-state , totalitarianism , uyghur-ethnicity , xinjiang-china