• 歐洲之聲發刊詞 Eng
  • 關於我們 About us
  • 隱私條款 Privacy Policy
  • 提供新聞 Authors contributions
  • 連絡我們 Contact us
歐洲之聲 Sino Euro Voices
  • 首頁
  • 關注熱點

    台灣第一艘國產潛艇下水

    美元的霸主地位 已成美中俄角力的焦點

    全球南方、中美脫鉤與分配正義

    許家印被帶走恆大帝國轟然倒塌

    【老陳時評】杭州的亞運與馬雲的失落

    上一個 下一個
  • 政經論壇

    曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」

    【胡平論政】:談談美國的政府停擺

    十一國殤日,全球齊討共

    【老陳時評】:李強家族被曝光黨亂已達核心層

    台灣第一艘國產潛艇下水

    上一個 下一個
  • 人權觀察

    多個人權團體參與中國國殤日的抗議活動

    十一國殤日,全球齊討共

    多個國際組織呼籲英國首相向中方施壓敦促釋放黎智英

    法新社專題報道:探訪新疆任意拘押中心蹤跡

    身居「三寸黃泥地」,屢經磨難終不悔 — 高瑜發自中國的吶喊

    上一個 下一個
  • 人文天下

    從父賜「志偉」名說起

    曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」

    黃慈萍榮獲托萊多大學傑出校友獎

    法國高中畢業哲學會考對台灣教育的啟示

    羅剎國裡辦盛事 三千億供一人威

    上一個 下一個
  • 歐洲風情

    【淇園漫步】狼來了,德國的人、狼之戰

    古老大學城、「哈利•波特」取景地─牛津 /英國之行(二)

    大英博物館、溫莎古堡,文化芬芳濃得化不開─英國之行(一)

    小村演大戲 「耶穌受難劇」歷四百年經久不衰

    法國喜劇新片《男接生婆》顛覆產房沙文主義

    上一個 下一個
  • 文學世界

    哈金的新作,戳破中共的神話?

    追尋古老文明的源頭——伊朗旅遊印象記(四)

    茉莉題畫詩10首 徐唯辛繪畫《烏克蘭·每一天》

    一個人的告別儀式

    那年稻花香

    上一個 下一個
  • 視頻薈萃

    看九州:關注中國的婦女權利

    達賴喇嘛和屠圖宗師——《喜悅》紀錄片帶給人類什麼?

    他的謙遜和人性力量-STATEMENT on the 5th Anniversary of the Death of LIU Xiaobo

    永不熄滅的明燈——劉曉波逝世五周年倫敦紀念活動YouTube視屏

    與曉波討論西方的「綏靖政策」——劉曉波逝世5週年倫敦紀念會上的講話

    上一個 下一個
  • 專文
    • 田牧新著
    • 淇園漫步
    • 田牧筆談
    • 老陳時評
    • 胡平論政
    • 香江寄語
    • 北京觀察
    • 比爾曼自傳
    • 潤南文苑
    • 雪山下的火焰
  • 古典音樂

    精選舒伯特鋼琴古典音樂Ⅱ

    約翰斯特勞斯「春之聲」圓舞曲

    維瓦地古典音樂精選

    孟德爾松古典音樂

    布拉姆斯古典音樂精選

    上一個 下一個
  • English

    China Keeps Trying to Crush Them. Their Movement Keeps Growing.

    UN-Arbeitsgruppe fordert Informationen zu „verschwundenen“ Tibetern – ICT: Zutiefst besorgniserregendes Muster

    法蘭克福匯報:關於「孔子學院」的讀者來函

    禿頭戈女 鏈鎖反應 – 10年回顧與展望

    焦距中國婦權的網絡訪談 Zu Frauenrechten und China

    上一個 下一個
  • 首頁
  • 關注熱點

    台灣第一艘國產潛艇下水

    美元的霸主地位 已成美中俄角力的焦點

    全球南方、中美脫鉤與分配正義

    許家印被帶走恆大帝國轟然倒塌

    【老陳時評】杭州的亞運與馬雲的失落

    上一個 下一個
  • 政經論壇

    曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」

    【胡平論政】:談談美國的政府停擺

    十一國殤日,全球齊討共

    【老陳時評】:李強家族被曝光黨亂已達核心層

    台灣第一艘國產潛艇下水

    上一個 下一個
  • 人權觀察

    多個人權團體參與中國國殤日的抗議活動

    十一國殤日,全球齊討共

    多個國際組織呼籲英國首相向中方施壓敦促釋放黎智英

    法新社專題報道:探訪新疆任意拘押中心蹤跡

    身居「三寸黃泥地」,屢經磨難終不悔 — 高瑜發自中國的吶喊

    上一個 下一個
  • 人文天下

    從父賜「志偉」名說起

    曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」

    黃慈萍榮獲托萊多大學傑出校友獎

    法國高中畢業哲學會考對台灣教育的啟示

    羅剎國裡辦盛事 三千億供一人威

    上一個 下一個
  • 歐洲風情

    【淇園漫步】狼來了,德國的人、狼之戰

    古老大學城、「哈利•波特」取景地─牛津 /英國之行(二)

    大英博物館、溫莎古堡,文化芬芳濃得化不開─英國之行(一)

    小村演大戲 「耶穌受難劇」歷四百年經久不衰

    法國喜劇新片《男接生婆》顛覆產房沙文主義

    上一個 下一個
  • 文學世界

    哈金的新作,戳破中共的神話?

    追尋古老文明的源頭——伊朗旅遊印象記(四)

    茉莉題畫詩10首 徐唯辛繪畫《烏克蘭·每一天》

    一個人的告別儀式

    那年稻花香

    上一個 下一個
  • 視頻薈萃

    看九州:關注中國的婦女權利

    達賴喇嘛和屠圖宗師——《喜悅》紀錄片帶給人類什麼?

    他的謙遜和人性力量-STATEMENT on the 5th Anniversary of the Death of LIU Xiaobo

    永不熄滅的明燈——劉曉波逝世五周年倫敦紀念活動YouTube視屏

    與曉波討論西方的「綏靖政策」——劉曉波逝世5週年倫敦紀念會上的講話

    上一個 下一個
  • 專文
    • 田牧新著
    • 淇園漫步
    • 田牧筆談
    • 老陳時評
    • 胡平論政
    • 香江寄語
    • 北京觀察
    • 比爾曼自傳
    • 潤南文苑
    • 雪山下的火焰
  • 古典音樂

    精選舒伯特鋼琴古典音樂Ⅱ

    約翰斯特勞斯「春之聲」圓舞曲

    維瓦地古典音樂精選

    孟德爾松古典音樂

    布拉姆斯古典音樂精選

    上一個 下一個
  • English

    China Keeps Trying to Crush Them. Their Movement Keeps Growing.

    UN-Arbeitsgruppe fordert Informationen zu „verschwundenen“ Tibetern – ICT: Zutiefst besorgniserregendes Muster

    法蘭克福匯報:關於「孔子學院」的讀者來函

    禿頭戈女 鏈鎖反應 – 10年回顧與展望

    焦距中國婦權的網絡訪談 Zu Frauenrechten und China

    上一個 下一個
沒有結果
查看所有結果
歐洲之聲 Sino Euro Voices
沒有結果
查看所有結果
首頁 English

New Technologies and Surveillance

Tienchi martin-Liao文 /Tienchi martin-Liao
2020-09-21
在 English, 人文天下, 文學世界
New Technologies and Surveillance

Peace Committee members,left to right:Franc Miska,Simon Mundy, Emmanuel Pirrot (president),Tienchi Martin-Liao

转换简体
分享到 Facebook分享到 Twitter分享到 Line分享到 WeChat

Established in 1967 by the Slovene PEN Centre, the International PEN Writers’ Meeting was first set at Piran, then at the lakeside resort of BLED, making it the oldest annual regional conference within the framework of the International PEN. More than 60 participants from 30 different countries and PEN centers gathered at last few Bled Writers’ Meetings.
There are many activities at each meeting like roundtables of the PEN International Writers for PeaceCommittee, and Women’s Committee, poets and writers appear on various literary stages across Slovenia and they occasionally host exhibitions.

推薦新聞

從父賜「志偉」名說起

從父賜「志偉」名說起

2023-10-04
曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」

曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」

2023-10-04

Due to Covid-19, this year’s Bled Conference is postponed from April to September 22-25. Even though many writers could not participate the conference because of the strict Covid regulations. The Peace Committee planned to have reports of their members on the conference:
Hate speech (Emmanuel Pierrot)
Social protests (Elizabeth)
New technology and surveillance (Tienchi Martin-Liao)
Migrants (Simon Mundy)
Protection of cultural sites (Sergej Roic)

Bled Castle is a medieval castle built on a precipice above the city of Bled in Slovenia overlooking Lake Bled..

New Technologies and Surveillance

The background

The technological revolution in modern time has generated an immense change of our world. In his book, The third Industrial Revolution; How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy and the world (2011 publ. by Palgrave MacMillan), the American social theorist Jeremy Rifkin described how the new communication technologies together with renewable energy have a strong impact on our behavior and daily life. People witnessed the analogue-to-digital conversion in the second half of last century. Home computer, digital camera, digital TV, CD-ROM
enter into our life, and finally cell phone and internet have overcome the world. Today, there are 4.78 billion (62% of world population) cell phone users and 4.54 billion (59% of world population) internet users (Wikipedia). Not to mention that the world of business, education, science and military is in the tight grips of digitalization.

The application of the new technology during the COVID-19-time

The sudden outbreak of pandemic of coronavirus in the beginning of 2020 has put the digitalization on a new test bench. Horror news has reached us daily about the escalating infected cases (26,192,041) and deaths (867,542) (Stand September 03, 2020) in over 230 countries worldwide, the tendency is still going up. The vaccine may possibly be created by the researchers in this year, till then hundred thousands of lives will be taken away by the pandemic. Most of the countries have closed and reopened the borders, schools and factories, government and public offices were shut down in the spring time, during the summer and autumn all were opened again, yet a second wave of the COVID is threatening all the countries again. International and domestic transport were reduced to minimum, in the summer vacation time, it operated half-way normal, but it will take a long time, maybe years, to return to the previous status. Most of the countries are still facing shortage of medical equipment, and a worldwide recession is destined.

In order to trace the COVID-19, many countries have applied the electronic surveillance technique, especially in Asia, and it proved to be effective. In Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore, the authorities are deploying digital surveillance apps, smartphone locators and even credit card usage to trace the travel or movements records of infected patients to follow the virus chains. In northern Italy, Lombardy, the authorities are analyzing the mobile phones movement to find out whether people follow the lockdown rules of the city government. The same happens in Israel, a country constantly troubled by terrorism, knows how to use the electronic devices to check the potential danger.

China, the first COVID outbreak country, has set up electronic surveillance combined with the “social credit system” for many years. Since January, the whole country has been in a state of emergency. The government required each cell-phone owner and Alipay user (Chinese zhifubao is a mobile and online payment platform, the founder Jack Ma induced it in China in 2004, now it is used by 1,2 billion Chinese, so over 90 % of the population ) to install a COVID-software, which classifies the people into red, yellow and green colors, the so-called health code. Green is free from viruses, yellow and red need to do the self-quarantine for 7 or 14 days. The authorities also use the drone, to check the cars’ and drivers’ accessibility, it also detects the offenders of the quarantine rules as well as those who do not wear face masks. In Jiangxi province the drone could even check people’s temperature. Big data and artificial intelligence fulfill the mission at cyber speed. The robots also fill up the shortage of manpower by controlling people. According to the Chinese official information, the COVID is under control, thanks to the new tech, no new infection case in Wuhan after the city was closed down for 2 months.

New technology is a double-edged sword

The Chinese experience has impressed the western countries. In Australia, South Korea, Italy, Germany and many other countries, the smartphone apps and other digital technology have been widely applied to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. In these countries, it is a voluntary act, not mandatory as in China. It is only for anti-coronavirus purpose, after the epidemic is over, all the personal information will be deleted. A large part of the population agrees with this means.

The rapid spread of the pandemic, is allowing governments to place a series of digital surveillance measures in the name of fighting the disease and protecting the public health. Yet, some measures change the scope of the civil rights, the privacy of each individual could be overridden. The balance between public safety and personal privacy is threatened. In the democratic countries, there is rule of law and media watch, normally the government cannot afford to cross the borderline to invade the private sphere. But in totalitarian countries like China, North Korea or semi- authoritarian lands, such as Iran, Turkey, Russia, Brazil and many more, digital technique is a prevalent instrument to control the media, to suppress the opposition, to spread fear and silence dissension.

The Bled conference 2019 group photo of the participants

What is PEN International’s position to the issue

We cannot and do not want to prevent the further development of the new technology, it is indeed a double-edged sword. To use it reasonably, it can save life, improve our working condition, enrich and lift the living standard. To fall it to the hand of dictatorship, it becomes the weapon of suppression.
What is the position of PEN International to this issue? Here are some suggestions:

•   We acknowledge that new technology is a part of the progress of our civilization. It brings prosperity and improves our living standard.
•   High tech in the digital era needs to go hand in hand with an independent ethics watchdog.
•   New technology shall never become governments’ instrument to suppress human rights, freedom of expression and freedom of press.
•   Citizens’ rights of information to digitalization needs to be guaranteed. Personal data can only be collected knowingly and voluntarily. The person has the right to know what’s the use of the data.
•   The related person has the right to retrieve back the personal data, which has been collected by certain organization or government.
•   PEN International demands the government of all countries in the world not to abuse the usage of electronic technology to monitor the dissidents, and to silence their voice. 

標籤: Bled conferenceCovidEmmanuel Pierrotnew technologyPeace CommitteePen International
分享Tweet分享分享
上一篇文章

致疑刑法學家

下一篇文章

魏京生:鄧小平的最大敵人是誰?

Tienchi martin-Liao

Tienchi martin-Liao

Tienchi Martin-Liao was the columnist of the Pittsburg literature online magazine SAMPSONIA WAY. She wrote for the FEARLESS INK column – Blind Chess from May 2012 till July 2018. The articles are reposted here, some of them are updated if necessary. Most of the topics and contents are still up to date, because in China the suppression on the intellectuals and dissidents is more severe then ever. There is no freedom of expression, no freedom of press, and people go to jail when they write things that offend the authority.

相關文章

從父賜「志偉」名說起
人文天下

從父賜「志偉」名說起

2023-10-04
曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」
人文天下

曹錕「賄選」與「雙十憲法」

2023-10-04
黃慈萍榮獲托萊多大學傑出校友獎
人文天下

黃慈萍榮獲托萊多大學傑出校友獎

2023-10-02
法國高中畢業哲學會考對台灣教育的啟示
人文天下

法國高中畢業哲學會考對台灣教育的啟示

2023-09-26
羅剎國裡辦盛事 三千億供一人威
人文天下

羅剎國裡辦盛事 三千億供一人威

2023-09-26
《時尚之惡》作者談服裝中毒
人文天下

《時尚之惡》作者談服裝中毒

2023-09-26
下一篇文章
魏京生:鄧小平的最大敵人是誰?

魏京生:鄧小平的最大敵人是誰?

魏京生:為什麽最後鄧小平放了我?

魏京生:為什麽最後鄧小平放了我?

魏京生:我去遊說美國政府的幕後故事

魏京生:我去遊說美國政府的幕後故事

熱門文章

New Technologies and Surveillance

New Technologies and Surveillance

2020-09-21
十一國殤日,全球齊討共

十一國殤日,全球齊討共

2023-10-02
習近平的弱點-狂妄與偏執如何威脅中國的未來

習近平的弱點-狂妄與偏執如何威脅中國的未來

2022-09-07
「四通」成功的歷史軌跡——萬潤南

「四通」成功的歷史軌跡——萬潤南

2023-09-18
彭帥成為全球新聞焦點(附錄:彭帥微博原文)

彭帥成為全球新聞焦點(附錄:彭帥微博原文)

2021-11-23
這些國民黨名嘴賣台求榮還要走多遠?

這些國民黨名嘴賣台求榮還要走多遠?

2022-12-21
【閒話三人行】撕裂惡化的全球安全問題展望(3-1)

【閒話三人行】撕裂惡化的全球安全問題展望(3-1)

2023-09-13
歐洲之聲

歐洲之聲網站根植於歐陸,創刊於庚子年新冠疫情席捲全球之際。數據化時代早已來臨,面對浩瀚的知識和信息海洋,太容易迷失方向。作為長年的媒體工作者,本網刊願為華語世界的讀者傳送平實可靠的資訊,也為追求民主、自由、人權的有識之士及愛好文藝的友朋提供寫作發文的平台。祈望這裡成為志同道合者共同耕耘的園地。

分類

  • English
  • 人文天下
  • 人權觀察
  • 北京觀察
  • 古典音樂
  • 墨爾本夜語
  • 專文
  • 政經論壇
  • 文學世界
  • 未分類
  • 歐洲風情
  • 比爾曼自傳
  • 淇園漫步
  • 潤南文苑
  • 田牧新著
  • 田牧筆談
  • 老陳時評
  • 胡平論政
  • 視頻薈萃
  • 關注熱點
  • 雪山下的火焰
  • 香江寄語
  • 歐洲風情
【淇園漫步】狼來了,德國的人、狼之戰

【淇園漫步】狼來了,德國的人、狼之戰

2023-07-27
古老大學城、「哈利•波特」取景地─牛津 /英國之行(二)

古老大學城、「哈利•波特」取景地─牛津 /英國之行(二)

2023-06-11

適用電子郵件訂閱網站

輸入你的電子郵件地址訂閱網站的新文章,使用電子郵件接收新通知。

關注我們

沒有結果
查看所有結果
  • 首頁
  • 關注熱點
  • 政經論壇
  • 人權觀察
  • 人文天下
  • 歐洲風情
  • 文學世界
  • 視頻薈萃
  • 專文
    • 墨爾本夜語
    • 香江寄語
    • 胡平論政
    • 北京觀察
    • 潤南文苑
    • 淇園漫步
    • 老陳時評
    • 雪山下的火焰
  • English
  • 古典音樂
  • 田牧新著

© 2020 歐洲之聲 Sino Euro Voices.

歐洲之聲網站使用 cookie 為您提供更好的使用體驗, 請閱讀我們的 隱私權政策,通過使用表示您確認並同意我們的政策。