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• Eugenics: Will Gene Editing Make Rich People ‘Superior’

  16-05-2019 17:30 via technocracy.news
  Rich transhumans, many of whom are associated with Silicon Valley and Big Tech, fully expect that gene editing will take over the process of evolution, allowing them to design humanity 2.0. They are wrong, but that won’t hinder their efforts. ⁃ TN EditorAt a time when new technology such as gene editing offers unprecedented control over our own biology, the latest wave of medical advances, including powerful DNA-editing technology like CRISPR/Cas9, is a source of excitement and
  
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• China Claims Its Social Credit System Has ‘Restored Morality’

  16-05-2019 17:00 via technocracy.news
  All of China’s 1.4 billion citizens are enrolled in its facial recognition and Social Credit System, resulting in 13 million being blacklisted; as a result, China is bragging that it has ‘restored morality’. ⁃ TN EditorChina’s state-run newspaper Global Times revealed in a column defending the nation’s authoritarian “social credit system” Monday that the communist regime had blacklisted 13.49 million Chinese citizens for being “untrustwo
  
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• US Police Capture 117 Million In Facial Recognition Systems

  16-05-2019 16:37 via technocracy.news
  Massive nationwide study in 2006 reveals that thirty-six percent of Americans are in a facial recognition database, and the number is growing rapidly. Law enforcement is mostly unregulated and agencies are free to drift toward a police state reality. ⁃ TN EditorThere is a knock on your door. It’s the police. There was a robbery in your neighborhood. They have a suspect in custody and an eyewitness. But they need your help: Will you come down to the station to stand in the line-up?
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• Unregulated: Police Capture 117 Million Americans In Face Recognition Systems

  16-05-2019 16:37 via technocracy.news
  Massive nationwide study in 2006 reveals that thirty-six percent of Americans are in a facial recognition database, and the number is growing rapidly. Law enforcement is mostly unregulated and agencies are free to drift toward a police state reality. ⁃ TN EditorThere is a knock on your door. It’s the police. There was a robbery in your neighborhood. They have a suspect in custody and an eyewitness. But they need your help: Will you come down to the station to stand in the line-up?
  Mo
  
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• Pacific Islands call on help from neighbouring 'bigger countries' to battle climate change

  16-05-2019 01:35
  
  Australia's pacific neighbours have made a plea for urgent and targeted action on climate change during a meeting with the UN Secretary General.
  
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