Lex Cybernetica Podcast

Identified only by his surname, Ao was caught in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, 90 kilometers from his Zhangshu home. He was reportedly shocked when police got hold of him, because he was singled out by facial recognition technology at a Jacky Cheung concert, which he complacently attended with his wife and a 50-thousand strong audience. He said he wouldn’t have gone had he known the police would be able to Where’s Waldo him. Another shocking, tech-driven privacy invading was at the center of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the personal Facebook data of 87 million users’ were compromised, among them the data of a 33-year-old American by the name of Mark Zuckerberg. Privacy is a relatively new concept in human history. Companies and organizations that wish to breach our privacy for their purposes, be these making money, keeping social order or achieving world dominance, are usually better funded, and oftentimes far more tech savvy, than those fighting the good privacy fight, while the general public seem