What would happen if the world’s leading social media company cut a deal with the Chinese government to use its Social Credit surveillance data to build an AI so accurate it could predict your every move? Emilie Buhart, a senior associate at a prestigious New York law firm, is about to find out when she’s loaned to the firm’s most important client in Silicon Valley.
An ambitious novel with a sympathetic heroine and a timely subject—how big data can be used to violate our privacy in unprecedented ways—Confucius in Silicon Valley takes the reader on a journey from high-powered careerist to female Edward Snowden all while trying to find love, happiness, career satisfaction, and ultimately, her true identity.
Author Zumak is a US privacy lawyer who has lived in China and Europe. Contact Zumak at AuthorZumak at gmail dot com.
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