Smart Cities?: Proceed With Caution!
Zaheer Allam provides a balanced view of the future impact of AI on societyIn some Smart City master plans, our privacy will be seriously compromised.
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How Business in China Becomes Ethically Expensive
Hong Kong raises the cost of rights and freedoms rhetoric steeply. Many advocates are bowing outApple had once positioned itself in opposition to Big Brother. The NBA had been a strong advocate of social justice. But with Hong Kong, they suddenly caved to Beijing. What’s at stake?
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How Much Google Do You Really Need?
As more people are becoming concerned about Big Tech’s snooping and apparent political ambitions, practical responses are emergingGetting away from constant surveillance and dangerous little bubbles of manipulated information is easier than some users may realize, tech pioneers and experts say. You can make simple changes today.
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Hong Kong: Face Mask Ban Fuels Fiercer Protest
The masks, like many of the protesters’ strategies, circumvent China’s omnipresent high-tech surveillanceThe Chinese government may use violent behavior as a justification for obliterating the Hongkongers’ prized freedoms. As a possible precedent, the Uyghur people, as a whole, were painted as religious extremists, even though only about 1,000 people participated in violent protests.
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Escaping the News Filter Bubble: Three Simple Tips
Spoiler: Reduce the amount of information big providers have about YOUOver time, unnoticed bubbles form ever more effective barriers against alternative information, maybe information you need. But getting out requires only a few simple steps.
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Can China Really Silence Hong Kong?
Hong Kong is tech-savvy and the protesters are adept at defeating even high-tech terrorsSome protestors use umbrellas to block the view of newly installed surveillance cameras while others dismantle the electronics. Others place traffic cones over tear gas canisters and then neutralize the gas with water.
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The Unadvertised Cost of Doing Business with China
It’s a big market, with one Big Player, and some strange rulesIn China, censorship includes democracy, human rights, sex, George Orwell’s 1984, and Winnie-the-Pooh (because the stuffed literary bear has been compared by some Chinese bloggers to their President). Such censorship, say many, minimizes the value of the internet.
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