Open lecture with Dr. Teng Biao, human rights lawyer and a Visiting Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

The rapid development of digital technologies has enabled the Chinese government to deploy new tools of social control. The unprecedented “high-tech totalitarianism” combines traditional repression with cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, facial recognition, biometric surveillance, and digital censorship, which enables predictive policing, real-time monitoring, and mass social engineering. It has a profound impact on China’s domestic politics and civil society, liberal democratic values, international security, tending to reshape the global order.

 

Bio:
Teng Biao is a human rights lawyer and a Visiting Fellow at the Chair for Human Rights Law, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). He has previously served as Lecturer at the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing, Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Hauser Human Rights Scholar at Hunter College (City University of New York), and as a visiting fellow at the New York University, Harvard, and Yale. Dr. Teng co-founded two human rights NGOs in Beijing – the Open Constitution Initiative in 2003 and China Against the Death Penalty in 2010. His current research covers China’s human rights, social movements, law and politics, and transnational repression.