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According to The Other Wiki, IT-backed authoritarianism, also known as techno-authoritarianism, digital authoritarianism or digital dictatorship, refers to the state use of information technology in order to control or manipulate both foreign and domestic populations.
The development of information technology allows the authoritarian government to control or manipulate both foreign and domestic populations. Tactics include the extensive manipulation of information (e.g. Censorship and Propaganda), the extensive surveillance of society, and the mass identification of dissidents.
The term was first coined in the late 2010s to describe the tendency of authoritarian governments to use information technology to enhance their capacity for repression, though the trope has been invoked before this trope receiving the current name.
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- In Psycho-Pass, it becomes possible to instantaneously measure and quantify a person's propensity towards criminality using a cymatic scanner in a dystopian 22nd-century Japan. The information is recorded and analyzed by the Sibyl System, a hive-mind that controls law enforcement in Japan. Sibyl's oracular judgment determines one's numerical crime coefficient, one's color-coded hue over time and one's societal profile that results in an indexed Psycho-Pass. This number determines people's value in society, as well as people's right to live in freedom, under observation, in custody or not live at all.