Episode 165: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about China. That’s all. Just China.
iOS 12 Preview (https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12-preview/) tracking of activity: good!
Google My Activity (https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity)
China will start using car surveillance system in July, says WSJ (https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/13/china-cars-rfid-monitoring-surveillance/)
Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned (https://www.popsci.com/article/diy/ezpass-hack-covert-scanning)
Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144690/chinese-debtors-shamed-broadcast-names-and-faces-giant-screens)
Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages (http://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2138960/jaywalkers-under-surveillance-shenzhen-soon-be-punished-text)
The panopticon meets the Broken Windows Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory)?
Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/17/chinese-school-uses-facial-recognition-monitor-student-attention/)
See tweet with images here (https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/996755673093292032)
See also: FacePause Chrome Extension Pauses a YouTube Video When You Look Away (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/facepause-chrome-extension-pauses-a-youtube-video-when-you-look-away/)
‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2143899/forget-facebook-leak-china-mining-data-directly-workers-brains)
Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 1: Researchers claim to have transferred a memory between two sea slugs (https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/researchers-claim-to-have-transferred-a-memory-between-two-sea-slugs/)
Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 2: Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611007/researchers-are-keeping-pig-brains-alive-outside-the-body/)
See also:
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_That_Wouldn%27t_Die)
Johnny Got His Gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun)
One (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw) by Metallica
Cutting Room Floor
* It’s Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/17/its-friday-so-relax-and-watch-a-hard-drive-defrag-forever-on-twitch/)
We Give Thanks
* The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about China. That’s all. Just China.

iOS 12 Preview tracking of activity: good!
Google My Activity
China will start using car surveillance system in July, says WSJ

Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned

Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday
Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages

The panopticon meets the Broken Windows Theory?

Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class

See tweet with images here
See also: FacePause Chrome Extension Pauses a YouTube Video When You Look Away

‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale
Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 1: Researchers claim to have transferred a memory between two sea slugs
Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 2: Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

See also:

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Johnny Got His Gun
One by Metallica

Cutting Room Floor

It’s Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch

We Give Thanks

The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!