Logo 11 Dec 2017

Double-edged big data sword

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Developing big data is not just about the economy. It’s also about empowering the government.
Xi wants to use big data to improve “governance”:

“[We] must establish mechanisms for using big data to assist in…targeted social governance.”

And he wants to use information from companies to d...