🔮 Chinopticon; no magic metaverse; cyberwar; smell, Vitalik, bacterium++ #378

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🇨🇳 Chinopticon. Exported.
How bad is Chinese surveillance getting? The New York Times provides new details of efforts to capture video footage, voice print, DNA samples and biometrics across the country. There is currently one camera for every three Chinese citizens… It isn’t hard to imagine a world where that ratio is 10, or even, 100 to 1.

About 80 million Americans use TikTok and “everything is seen in China” according to a Buzzfeed investigation.

At a private event last week, one of the world’s most well-known technology execs s…