Chinese smart cities: a better quality of life or an instrument of mass surveillance?

Chinese smart cities: a better quality of life or an instrument of mass surveillance?

As technology advances, making people’s lives easier, so does the deterioration of civil liberties and basic human rights. A clear example are the smart cities in China, with technologies capable of even alerting when someone falls asleep at the car wheel, the state apparatus has penetrated every aspect of the private lives of its inhabitants.