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• Human Rights Lawyer: Facial Recognition Is Arsenic In The Water Of Democracy

  12-06-2019 05:35 via technocracy.news
  One critic of Social Engineering and Digital Slavery, aka Technocracy, suggests that “Mass surveillance has a chilling effect that distorts public behaviour.” Indeed, the world has little time left to reverse the trend. ⁃ TN EditorAutomated facial recognition poses one of the greatest threats to individual freedom and should be banned from use in public spaces, according to the director of the campaign group Liberty.
  Martha Spurrier, a human rights lawyer, said the technology h
  
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• In China’s Smart Cities, Everyone Is Being Watched

  12-06-2019 05:16 via technocracy.news
  There is no escape from digital slavery: China now reveals that “most citizens are required to download apps on their phones that let the authorities monitor what they look at and track their movements.” ⁃ TN EditorEarlier this year, a U.S. congressional committee commissioned a report on China’s development of “smart cities,” with a particular focus on whether they were smarter than their American counterparts.
  The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Comm
  
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• 6G Will Combine AI With Real-Time Speeds Of 1 Terabyte/Sec.

  12-06-2019 05:05 via technocracy.news
  If 5G is just a stepping stone to 6G, then hold on to your seat. AI plus instantaneous connections will enable ad-hoc networks of things and people to achieve unheard-of outcomes. ⁃ TN EditorMobile-phone technology has changed the way humans understand and interact with the world and with each other. It’s hard to think of a technology that has more strongly shaped 21st-century living.
  The latest technology—the fifth generation of mobile standards, or 5G—is currently being
  
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