Building a Strategic Panopticon

Published 2023-03

In late 2019, China began requiring all citizens to submit to facial recognition in order to apply for new internet or mobile services, and began requiring that telecom companies deploy AI to check the identities of people registering SIM cards.

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Verdict

renamedThe same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33).

Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2025-030

State AI surveillance led by China continues as Citizen Surveillance (2024 Panopticon is a different claim).

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

In our research

WintermuteChinese AI Surveillance Systems

All captured fields

rank: 360
section: Artificial Intelligence
subsection: Trends / Spotlight: China’s Long-Term AI Ambitions
subject: Building a Strategic Panopticon
page: 58
confidence: high