A form of governing system which involves the use of information technology to surveil, repress, and manipulate the populace, endangering human rights and civil liberties, and co-opting and corrupting the foundational principles of democratic and open societies, “including freedom of movement, the right to speak freely and express political dissent, and the right to personal privacy, online and off.” Also, see Authoritarianism.
Technological system that makes everything that was once private is now up for grabs to the right buyer.
AI-based surveillance technology which can do what the police state lacks the manpower and resources to do efficiently or effectively: be everywhere, watch everyone and everything, monitor, identify, catalogue, cross-check, cross-reference, and collude.
Ruling elite’s preferred governing method whose seeds were first planted in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, with the passage of the USA Patriot Act.