
Conversations: with John Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University
John Anderson: Conversations
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How Much of Your Privacy Are You Prepared to Sacrifice for Security?
In China, we have now the social credit system that apparently will be rolled out in the entire country. If we fail to put our rubbish trash can out at night, there'll be marks against us. And if we go to somewhere dubious or mixed with someone who's political loyal to suspect, we'll get more negative points. On the other hand, if we pay our debts on time and go grain, so to speak, and all this kind of thing, we will amass more credit points. So it is, talk about 1984. This is not futuristic speculation. This is already happening. In any way, it's what's actually happening at the moment."
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