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2019-08-26 -Land of the Free

Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-26 08:40|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 It's not a truly "private school" if the government gets to say who can attend and who cannot. Or maybe the Chinese have different ideas about how privacy works.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-26 10:37|| 2019-08-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#2 FYI - going to the Fastcompany site means you accept up to 16 3rd-party trackers.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-08-26 12:16|| 2019-08-26 12:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Only 16? Pikers.

Posted by KBK 2019-08-26 18:50|| 2019-08-26 18:50|| Front Page Top

#4 A company called PatronScan sells three products—kiosk, desktop, and handheld systems—designed to help bar and restaurant owners manage customers. PatronScan is a subsidiary of the Canadian software company Servall Biometrics, and its products are now on sale in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

PatronScan helps spot fake IDs—and troublemakers. When customers arrive at a PatronScan-using bar, their ID is scanned. The company maintains a list of objectionable customers designed to protect venues from people previously removed for “fighting, sexual assault, drugs, theft, and other bad behavior,” according to its website. A “public” list is shared among all PatronScan customers. So someone who’s banned by one bar in the U.S. is potentially banned by all the bars in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada that use the PatronScan system for up to a year. (PatronScan Australia keeps a separate system.)

Judgment about what kind of behavior qualifies for inclusion on a PatronScan list is up to the bar owners and managers. Individual bar owners can ignore the ban, if they like. Data on non-offending customers is deleted in 90 days or less. Also: PatronScan enables bars to keep a “private” list that is not shared with other bars, but on which bad customers can be kept for up to five years.

PatronScan does have an “appeals” process, but it’s up to the company to grant or deny those appeals.

And you don't want to be a conservative.

Posted by KBK 2019-08-26 18:57|| 2019-08-26 18:57|| Front Page Top

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