Thorns Have Roses
Do roses have thorns, or do thorns have roses? We offer a different way of seeing the world. Join us biweekly as we dissect modern topics with knowledgeable people to broaden our perspectives.
Thorns Have Roses
Bonus: 'We're just data'
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Anurag Papolu and Christina Li
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In this week's episode, we revisit surveillance systems with Karen Li Xan Wong and look at how governments and corporations use our data to track us. She explains how these systems are all around us and all around the world.
There have been reports this week that the EU is planning to regulate the use of AI for mass surveillance and social credit systems.
This episode is a good introduction to this topic, which we investigated thoroughly in our previous episode "One of many: China's social credit system."