Edward Snowden warns that the infrastructure for a Chinese-style social credit system is being built in plain sight.
Edward Snowden warns that the infrastructure for a Chinese-style social credit system is being built in plain sight.
"If any of your activities online, if your purchases, if your associations... are in any way different from what the government... would like them to be, you're no longer able to purchase train tickets. You're no longer able to board an airplane.... You may not be eligible for a job."
"All of these things are increasingly being created and programmed and decided by algorithms. And those algorithms are fuelled by precisely the innocent data that our devices are creating all of the time—constantly, invisibly, quietly—right now."
"And these activity records are being created and shared and collected... constantly by companies and governments. And ultimately, it means as they sell these... what they are selling is not information. What they are selling is us."
"They're selling our future. They're selling our past. They are selling our history, our identity. And ultimately, they are stealing our power."
He said all this in 2019. Can you imagine how much worse things have gotten since then?
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