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Social media profiling discussed on TWiT podcast

March 14, 2017 By editor

Leo Laporte and guests discuss social media profiling in the latest TWiT podcast.

They describe credit ratings in China that are formed not just from financial data, but also social networking activities.

According to the podcast these scores have already been used deny train travel to 7m people.

As Laporte says, “It’s out of Black Mirror.”

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