We recently reported how China continues to turn the online world into the ultimate surveillance system, which hardly comes as a surprise, since China has been relentlessly moving in this direction for years. What is rather more surprising is that Chinese citizens are beginning to push back, at least in certain areas. For example, The New York Times reports on an „outcry“ provoked by a division of the Alibaba behemoth when it assumed that its users wouldn‘t worry too much if they were enrolled automatically in one of China‘s commercially-run tracking systems: