Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ...
by morgante on Monday November 28, 2016 @10:09PM
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What exactly is so disturbing about a company digitizing what bouncers have been doing for decades?
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Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ...
by mattnewton on Monday November 28, 2016 @10:39PM
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Bouncers don't typically work for multiple clubs, you can't hack into their brains, they have imperfect memory, etc
This is like asking, what's wrong with state owned security cameras on the streets? It's digitizing what bystanders have been doing for centuries.
Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ...
by morgante on Monday November 28, 2016 @11:06PM
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Well, I don't see any problem with state owned security cameras.
Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ...
by type0 on Monday November 28, 2016 @11:48PM
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> state owned security cameras
There is a difference between security cameras and surveillance cameras. Surveillance cams are broadcasted somewhere else (maybe even over internet) and stored and reviewed. Security cameras - are for security incidents and shouldn't be broadcasted or footage stored longer than necessary (matter of hours or days depending on location).
Too bad often times these state owned security cameras are actually surveillance cams disguised as innocuous things which they aren't. There is this Will Smith movie "Enemy of the State", it's fiction but our dystopic society is becoming ever more scary.
Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ...
by deathanatos on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:11PM
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I'm not sure what the bouncers are doing is right, either, though for some reason I'm more comfortable with it. (Which I find to be a really bad answer, frankly: is this just pushing my "comfort" of what I'm willing to put up with too far?)