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CHAPTER 8

Connecting collective synapses

The idea of an intelligent team brings up the question of who owns intelligence, individually, collectively, corporately and in communities. Google have a different answer to the Chinese in this respect. Google is currently estimated to process 3.5 billion requests a day. The Guangzhou Southern Metropolis Daily reported that the Chinese state not only collects personal data about its citizens, but it also sells the data. It seems that one can gain access to data about people’s movements, borders crossed, who they met, driving offences, pictures, location, etc. for small sums of money without any questions. The Chinese Government also plans to give each citizen a ‘social credit’ score, which will ...

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