The Chinese government uses facial recognition for large-scale surveillance in public CCTV cameras, both to catch criminals and monitor the behavior of all individuals with the intent of turning the data into a score. Seemingly harmless offenses like buying too many video games or jaywalking can lower your score. China uses that score for a sort of “social credit” system that determines whether the individual should be allowed to get a loan, buy a house or even much simpler things like board a plane or access the internet.
Yeah. That’s a real advantage for human rights and democracy. And when the hackers get involved, it’ll lead to an entirely new definition of the term “face lift.”
“Three little children who were playing on the sidewalk near 118th Street and Seventh Avenue Tuesday afternoon jokingly shouted to two women riding in a ten-year-old automobile, ‘Get a horse! Get a horse!’
One thing I have struggled with while uncovering my family’s complicated past is the lack of consistency in naming conventions before the digital age.
It has been said that men write history but women live it.
So where to start the family stories?
While visiting Montreal and Upstate New York for summer vacation, my family were greeted by an unhappy surprise.
About ten days ago, I started a countdown on my Facebook “wall.”
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