Digital Biopolitics and Modern State Surveillance Mechanisms: A Political Philosophical Analysis of Big Data Citizen Evaluation System
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This research article aims to: 1) critically analyze the structural semiotics of big data-driven citizen evaluation and social credit scoring systems in the contemporary state; and 2) develop the conceptual framework of ìinformational molecular biopowerî to explain the dynamics of modern surveillance. Utilizing a qualitative research methodology based on systematic literature analysis, logical critique, and critical semiotics, the findings reveal that state power no longer relies on physical incarceration within total institutions. Instead, it governs through digital infrastructures that infiltrate and regulate human bodies and consciousness at a molecular scale. These evaluation systems utilize coded access to classify individuals based on systemic compliance, leading to involuntary subjugation and a silent erosion of individual free will due to the destruction of ontological rights. To expand our critical understanding of modern state surveillance, this study conceptualizes ìinformational molecular biopowerî as a theoretical tool and offers policy recommendations to establish digital data sovereignty for citizens in the twenty-first century.
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