China’s facial recognition rollout reaches into mobile phones, shops and homes Scaremongers had dragged out Orwell; Charlie Brooker and Orientalist tropes but she’d been happy to opt in. It wasn’t just the ease of paying or getting around the Tube. No, it was the small things. She smiled as the newsfeed changed to her favourite …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #35
Amnesty International latest to slam surveillance giants Facebook and Google as “incompatible” with human rights The protest had spilled over into the election. The activists had got the passive to act. Candidates who echoed the activists’ demands were sweeping into power. The demands had gone mainstream. Online and offline had blurred as the activists had …
Dispatch from an advertising future #34
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/11/15/238341/privacy-pew-research-data-collection-big-tech-facebook-google-apple/ She’d stayed longer than planned. It was dark. She could wait until someone was heading her way but why couldn’t she walk her own streets alone? She could call a driverless but it was a nice evening. She made her excuses and as the cold air hit her, she tapped her earpiece: “OK, WatchMe,” …
Dispatch from an advertising future #32
Google accused of spying with new tool that flags large employee meetings Our teams are creating value; in meetings but also outside meeting rooms. So today we can unveil Put-The-Eye-In-Team (™). Now you’ll no longer have to think about sharing your ideas. Put-The-Eye-In-Team (™) will do it for you. Bump into a colleague by the …
Dispatch from an advertising future #30
Taxi-Top Startup Firefly Can Now Target Ads Based on Weather It hadn’t been a good day. His StressBit was pulsing yellow as his StressPods moved from ambient to the StressPlaylist the company had loaded after his last appraisal. If he could get to white, he could switch it back to The Killers. Perhaps before the …
Dispatch from an advertising future #29
The transhumanists who are ‘upgrading’ their bodies I hate them, parents. Hippies. Paranoid hippies. “We want you to have your privacy, your freedom. Your body’s perfect. It doesn’t need anything adding. You don’t need upgrading” They don’t understand what it’s like. I’m a laughing stock. Worse, I’m shunned. Worse still, I’m ‘out’. Look, the guys …