Month: October 2018

Chinese people are being introduced to a scheme that monitors their behaviour, scores them, and doles out punishments and rewards.

Source: China has started ranking citizens with a creepy ‘social credit’ system — here’s what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you

They’re not quite spy glasses, but they can call an Uber and text your pals.

Source: For a Thousand Bucks, You Can Get the First Non-Dorky Smart Glasses

No, this isn’t something from a Michael Crichton techno-thriller: Scientists really have created simulated ‘artificial life’ on a quantum computer for the first time ever. And that’s kind of a big deal — because they hope it might just help decipher the origins of life.

Source: It’s Alive! Scientists Create ‘Artificial Life’ on a Quantum Computer | Digital Trends

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Source: Coming Soon

At a Senate hearing this week in which US lawmakers quizzed tech giants on how they should go about drawing up comprehensive Federal consumer privacy protection legislation, Apple’s VP of software technology described privacy as a “core value” for the company. “We want your device to know everything about you but we don’t think we should,” Bud […]

Source: Facebook is weaponizing security to erode privacy

 

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Source: The Quint

Former US Intelligence contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden said that the privacy of Indians has time and again been compromised by UIDAI’s Aadhaar scheme – a massive mass surveillance system – while speaking via video conference, at the Vox Media Foundation’s annual media festival ‘Talk Journalism 2018’, on 11 August in Jaipur.

Sales of “dumbphones” are on the rise as consumers increasingly seek ways to disconnect from the technology so many of us rely upon for work and everyday life. Handsets that are not connected to the internet and only allow the user to make calls and send texts are becoming increasingly popular, with sales having increased by as much as 5 per cent last year. In contrast, smartphone sales rose by just 2 per cent.

Source: People are buying ‘dumbphones’ so they can disconnect from technology