Alex Plavevski/EPA August 31, 2021 China’s ‘surveillance creep’: how big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people post‑pandemic Ausma Bernot, Griffith University; Alexander Trauth-Goik, University of Wollongong, and Sue Trevaskes, Griffith University China has used big data collection systems to keep COVID under control. How the government plans to use these new capabilities in its national surveillance system has many concerned.
