How Chicom of them.
I kinda like the term Orwellian.
They’re appropriating China’s Sesame Credit system. It ranks each person per the Communist ideal from purchasing habits to criminal behavior to not tweeting government propaganda enough.
Yep. Apple has handed the Chinese government the keys to its cloud data as a condition of doing business in China. Amazon and other silicon giants are doing the same. The Chinese market is the big prize, and these corporations have allegiance only to money. The Chinese use this data about an individual's online activities to determine a social score for the person.
Your privileges in China (and soon here as well if the technocracy has its way) hinge on your social score, such as the privilege of traveling. If you score low enough, you lose important privileges such as the privilege of retaining valuable internal organs which can be sold for big bucks.
In China today, as well as the near-future America envisioned by Apple and most of Silicon Valley, you are a resource which will be exploited to the fullest one way or another.
“How Chicom of them.”
Well, sorta. But this a fiscal, not a political, tool.
Sounds like they’re using programming they’ve already paid to develop to please China, etc to make the device more secure as a financial tool in free countries.
But they’re acting like a credit reporting firm (if the info is used by non-Apple stores). May be regulatory problems there.
started in an Episode of Black mirror on Netflix Women gets crazy after her social score goes way down
“How Chicom of them.”
Yeah, it’s nefarious. Just like the commies at eBay having seller ratings... (rolls eyes)