Comment on Which country treats privacy at worst ?

glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• forensic_potato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For China, I would also add the social credit score which relies a lot on facial recognition…a real nightmare

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  • shakcked@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And gait recognition too nhttps://youtu.be/R46cX0AjzT4?si=neUjyIYC-Pc6kL3M

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  • vector_zero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As I understand it, the social credit score was never actually put into place. It was mentioned once as an idea, and people took that as a commitment to implement it.

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    • forensic_potato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for the correction! I actually never looked much into it, so it was surprising to see how many misconceptions there are about China’s social credit system. Having said that, after looking more into it, saying it was never put into place wouldn’t be entirely correct either, apparently. Some people have been comparing it to the credit score system in the US and it seems quite apt from what I read. It is there, it simply isn’t a centralized system or an all-encompassing entity.

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      • 5ubieee@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s so many more comparisons to be drawn between the US and China than most in the west think, the credit system is a great example of that since a lot of people don’t realize how fucked it is in the US.

        Just the idea of permanently ascribing a number to how profitable someone is for banks and dictating what opportunities they can get based off that number is horribly dystopian in itself, but people are so accustomed to it and have so many misconceptions to its purpose that there’s not nearly as much criticism over it as there should be.

        Another part of it is the rigid west-east dichotomy that’s still brought up so often even as it’s become increasingly irrelevant in the past several decades, I’d recommend anyone who’s interested check out There Never Was a West, it’s a short read but I think it can be pretty eye opening and puts a lot of the modern day rhetoric about international politics into a broader historical perspective.

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  • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you a pedophile if you’re hiding your face for the glory of communism? I’m just asking questions.

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a pretty short-sighted read on the UK. We have serious issues with the Tories trying to undermine encryption, but the fact that there are a lot of 30-year-old non-networked CCTV cameras attached to businesses and residences is not really an issue.

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  • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks, I forgot this: “We want the master keys to Signal, and we put cameras everywhere because you have nothing to hide.”

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The government isn’t forking out to put cameras everywhere though. There are a few in city centres which I’d imagine local councils have to pay for, most are installed by private businesses just to protect their own property.

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