Trafficking data : how China is winning the battle for digital sovereignty / Aynne Kokas.
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- ISBN: 9780197620502
- ISBN: 9780197620519
- Physical Description: xx, 335 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes glossary (pgs. 211-216) bibliographical references (pgs. 217-305) and index (pgs. 307-335). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Acronymn -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- The data trafficking dilemma -- What happens in Vegas stays in China: fragmented US tech oversight -- Becoming a cyber sovereign: China's politics of data governance -- From farms to outer space: how China networds sovereignty in the United States -- Social media: the algorithm as national security asset -- Gaming: the porous boundaries of virtual worlds -- Money: the risks of data trafficking for China -- Health: surveilling borderless biodata -- Towards data stabilization -- Epilogue -- English-Pinyin-Chinese Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Trafficking Data : How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
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Data trafficking, according to Kokas (media studies, Univ. of Virginia), is the "commercial extraction of consumer data to support a government outside the legal system users consented to have protect them" (p. 2). She argues that China threatens digital sovereignty by requiring all American tech firms seeking access to its markets to allow it oversight over collected data. Health data managers, social media apps such as TikTok, video games such as Fortnite, banking apps such as Alipay, and even items in the home as mundane as kitchen appliances and sex toys provide much consumer information and pose national security threats to the US. Kokas further argues that data management has become a "central tactic for exerting domestic authority" (p. 80). She calls for data stabilization, meaning that the US should take the middle ground of "careful oversight and controlled release" of data management instead of its current "unbridled capitalism" of an open data market and the PRC's national control of its own and other nations' data (p. 192). The European Union and Japan are examples of countries that use data protection, which can help the US "stave off [China's] extraterritorial government data oversight" (p. 209). Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --Stephen G. Craft, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University