WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that knows everything about me

Post by mywittyname » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #111

ohnope wrote: post #68

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2 minutes with a moka? I seriously need to step up my game. 1 minute: hang grind fresh beans 1 minute: take out moka pot, fill with water, put coffee in, put on stove 3-6 minutes depending on ambient temp: moka boils 1 minute: pour cup, wash out moka pot Moka is such a pain. I drip now for time efficiency.

I have way too many coffee makers of various types at home. I always seem to end up circling back to electric drip. Fewest actions and least manual intervention of any approach first thing in the morning. (I don't really like Keurig and it's pretty wasteful--and I generally want more than one cup anyway.)

Post by pertymcpert » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

ohithereyou wrote: post #55

yesforwhat wrote: post #18

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They still take Visa, and don't insist on an authoritarian government's surveillance app.

What do you call the CCTV cameras everywhere other than "an authoritarian government's surveillance"?

Post by yorwba » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

noja wrote: post #168

scilro wrote: post #166

I find WeChat and its aggressively centralized model fascinating, and something to keep eyes on, but this article falls into the familiar trap of playing a bit loose with the facts when it comes to how the Chinese government surveils its citizens. For example, this is from article: >People are regularly arrested for messages they send in supposedly “private” group chats. In 2017, two people were arrested in Nanjing f…

It depends who distributed the screenshots.

Post by scilro » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

gbrown wrote: post #174

scilro wrote: post #166

I find WeChat and its aggressively centralized model fascinating, and something to keep eyes on, but this article falls into the familiar trap of playing a bit loose with the facts when it comes to how the Chinese government surveils its citizens. For example, this is from article: >People are regularly arrested for messages they send in supposedly “private” group chats. In 2017, two people were arrested in Nanjing f…

Not everyone has to actually be constantly surveiled for the effects to be the same, a-la panopticon.

Post by rcao » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

NotPaidToPost wrote: post #60

foozed wrote: post #45

> It knows my biometric information; it knows the very contours of my face. I was under the impression that Face ID does not leak such information to whatever app is using it?

This has nothing to do with FaceID, which isn't mentioned in the article. WeChat has its own face recognition system.