Tom Miller

The US tech companies behind China’s mass surveillance

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  • The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

    Geoffrey Cain

    Public Affairs, pp. 304, £25

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