Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

Tag: privacy

  • China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real by Jamie Horsley (Foreign Policy) Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.

  • At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges (nytimes.com) The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance.

  • We Need to Have an Honest Talk About Our Data (WIRED) VR pioneer Jaron Lanier talks with WIRED about why the original architecture of the internet forced us into a kind of information trickery, and how we can fix it—to everyone’s benefit.

  • How China complicates Apple’s chest-thumping about privacy by https://www.facebook.com/contentnewton (The Verge) A former Facebook executive points out that Apple likely has to make compromises, too