{"id":62968,"date":"2018-03-19T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=62968"},"modified":"2018-03-19T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:50:40","slug":"is-this-the-kind-of-world-we-want-chinas-new-frontiers-in-dystopian-tech-chun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/03\/19\/is-this-the-kind-of-world-we-want-chinas-new-frontiers-in-dystopian-tech-chun\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the kind of world we want? “China\u2019s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech” [Chun]"},"content":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech<\/strong><\/a> — from theatlantic.com by Rene Chun
\nFacial-recognition technologies are proliferating, from airports to bathrooms.<\/em><\/p>\n

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China is rife with face-scanning technology worthy of Black Mirror. Don\u2019t even think about jaywalking in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province. Last year, traffic-management authorities there started using facial recognition to crack down. When a camera mounted above one of 50 of the city\u2019s busiest intersections detects a jaywalker, it snaps several photos and records a video of the violation. The photos appear on an overhead screen so the offender can see that he or she has been busted, then are cross-checked with the images in a regional police database. Within 20 minutes, snippets of the perp\u2019s ID number and home address are displayed on the crosswalk screen. The offender can choose among three options: a 20-yuan fine (about $3), a half-hour course in traffic rules, or 20 minutes spent assisting police in controlling traffic. Police have also been known to post names and photos of jaywalkers on social media.<\/p>\n

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The technology\u2019s veneer of convenience conceals a dark truth: Quietly and very rapidly, facial recognition has enabled China to become the world\u2019s most advanced surveillance state. A hugely ambitious new government program called the \u201csocial credit\u00a0system\u201d aims to\u00a0compile unprecedented data sets, including everything from bank-account numbers to court records to internet-search histories, for all Chinese citizens. Based on this information, each person could be assigned a numerical score, to which points might be added for good behavior like winning a community award, and deducted for bad actions like failure to pay a traffic fine. The goal of the program, as stated in government documents, is to \u201callow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step.\u201d<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech — from theatlantic.com by Rene Chun Facial-recognition technologies are proliferating, from airports to bathrooms. Excerpt: China is rife with face-scanning technology worthy of Black Mirror. Don\u2019t even think about jaywalking in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province. Last year, traffic-management authorities there started using facial recognition to crack down. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,354,356,314,210,403,419,482,144,309,480,454,195,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-asia","category-emerging-technologies","category-ethics","category-ideas-teaching","category-intelligent-systems","category-photography","category-platforms","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62970,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968\/revisions\/62970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}