A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior

A well written article to read:

Smart ID cards and facial recognition: How China spreads surveillance tech around the world

Other countries are adopting facial recognition systems made by Chinese companies, raising questions about personal privacy and human rights. A recent report from Freedom House, a think tank funded by the US government, says that Chinese tech companies are supplying AI surveillance tools to 18 of the 65 countries it assessed.

On some occasions, they are said to be feeding data back to China.

Under a deal struck with Zimbabwe’s government back in March, Chinese startup CloudWalk will work on a facial recognition project that includes building a national database of faces, China’s Global Times reported.

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Last Edited by Pole Cat on 11/16/2018 10:19 AM

So,

A) What are the 18 countries they have given the tech to?

B) What happens when 95% of Venezuela gets a fail rating on their social credit by next week?

EMP EMP EMP

I'm currently trying to find the list of countries. From the article above, they only mention Thailand, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Venezuela, and Mexico. Will update post when I can find out more.

Add Myanmar and Equador:

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add Johannesburg:

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Last Edited by Pole Cat on 11/16/2018 10:48 AM

If there is one article to read today, please let it be this one.

Holee Fook


State-owned China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile are laying down the digital Silk Road, with fiber-optic links to Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, and Nepal, among other countries. A company called H3C has already won contracts to build the telecommunications network for airports in Nigeria and the port of Gwadar in Pakistan. Huawei is building Latin America’s largest public Wi-Fi network in Mexico, Bangladesh’s 5G mobile network, and Cambodia’s 4.5G service, and is advising the Kenyan government on its “master plan” for information and communication technologies.

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In Canada, we already have SMART TRASH BINS.

In Gatineau, they have just literally rolled out smart trash bins that contain surveillance equipment - utterly illegal -- in which everyone was given one of these bins, plus we have all been told that we MUST have these in our homes, listening on on us, whether we want them or not.

I HAVE REFUSED MINE

When they brought them round, i wheel ours up to the "Unwanted electrical Equipment Disposal Desk" outside our local library in Aylmer and left it there.

- And I have been threatened with arrest. .. but I'm not having the city's surveillance trash bin spying in my home, spying on my family.

So far, the US and Australia have bans on tracking citizens through an ID system.

It's getting to where people in other countries that are implementing this, have to scan their IDs just to create an email address.

and all this info is getting sent back to China to track.

It worries me because I could see this eventually happening here in the US.

Aren't we all supposed to get new 'real IDs' this January?

This is actually how China started their system.

Anyway, I'm going to leave it at that.


Just for fun, if you have a Facebook account, go to settings, then payments...

I bet your credit/debit card number is listed there and you didn't put it in.

Last Edited by Pole Cat on 11/16/2018 11:07 AM

WTF!

That is the main reason why I don't let this bother me.... let them invest everything they have into this technology. When it is all said and done, can't beat Mother Nature, ingenuity of a few, and incompetence of many.

This too shall pass.

Why is this even news? your android and apple phones have been doing this all along without telling you. Even your Xbox have been recording your behaviors and sending them to Microsoft for profit.

The free phones given to low-income American citizens are ZTE phones

Wait, I thought Venezuela was in the state of anarchy; A Mad Max nation.
Does anyone there care about a social rating in a nation completely in chaos?

Hahaha you forgot the old saying:
Order out of chaos.


Once the Venezualan dust clears it will firmly be a Chinese colony.