YOU ARE KNOWN

World News (Daily Decode) · 23 October, from the digest of 16 to 20. In Hong Kong, private mall cameras are being wired into the police network: a target of 60,000 cameras by 2028. In the United States a court let a state demand a document at the door of social media: fail to prove your age and you are a child. The checkout is learning to recognise the shopper by face and palm, and "the anonymous cardholder becomes a known customer." In the emergency room a language model reads the chart and moves down the queue anyone with one extra line in the record. Four stories, one line: you are known. Yesterday a pass was needed everywhere. Today nobody asks for it: you are known by face, by record and by age.