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Privacy lost: Appropriating surveillance technology in China's fight against COVID-19.
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- The evolution logic and optimisation strategies of China's emergency management system from the perspective of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (1949-2023).Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The heterogeneous impact of public security cameras on safety perceptions in cities: Evidence from China.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Changes to Public Health Surveillance Methods Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Opportunities and Challenges for Construction Health and Safety Technologies under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Construction Projects.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Primary Care Physicians' and Patients' Perspectives on Equity and Health Security of Infectious Disease Digital Surveillance.Annals of family medicineArticle
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Abstract
China's unprecedented measures to mobilize its diverse surveillance apparatus played a key part in the country's successful containment of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Critics worldwide believe these invasive technologies, in the hands of an authoritarian regime, could trample the right to privacy and curb fundamental civil and human rights. However, there is little domestic public resistance in China about technology-related privacy risks during the pandemic. Drawing on academic research and a semantic network analysis of media frames, we explore the contextual political and cultural belief systems that determine public support for authorities' ever-expanding access to personal data. We interrogate the longer-term trajectories-including the guardian model of governance, sociotechnical imagination of technology, and communitarian values-by which the understanding of technology and privacy in times of crisis has been shaped. China's actions shed light on the general acceptance of the handover of personal data for anti-epidemic purposes in East Asian societies like South Korea and Singapore.
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