China’s Social Credit System

Residents of the Chinese city of Shenzhen may soon need to put their pet dogs on very short leashes in the name of public security.  The city in southern China's Guangdong Province is planning to ban owners from using leads longer than 20 inches while walkin…

One of the biggest issues with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science is the integrity of our data. Even if we did all the right things in our models, and our testing, data might conform to some technical standard of cleanliness, there might still be biases…

In an attempt to imbue trust, China has announced a plan to implement a national ranking system for its citizens and companies. Currently in pilot mode, the new system will be rolled out in 2020, and go through numerous iterations before becoming official. W…

Loss of Control Deposit photos This post was developed in collaboration with Dr. George Tomko, Inventor, Biometric Encryption and Smart Data Agents. We live in an age of increasing centralization that pervades all aspects of our culture. In todays world, c…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done before an accord could be agreed. The emerging d…

US President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done before an accord could be agreed. The emerging deal…

President Donald Trump has boasted that farmers will be struggling to meet demand from China under the terms of a tentative new trade deal. At a rally in Louisiana on Friday night, Trump bragged that the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China co…

US President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done before an accord could be agreed. The emerging deal…

My father was dead less than a month when I received a letter from his funeral home. The mail was hand-addressed. Another sympathy card, I thought, very nice. But no, rather than a note of condolence, the letter turned out to be something else I should have a…

Picture a world in which the baseline requirement for a new smartphone is a facial recognition test. You needn’t imagine it — in China, beginning December 1, that’s the scrutiny to which the country’s over 850 million internet users will be subject without ex…