One step at a time

Creepy news story today concerns a Chinese computer game. From the BBC -

Chinese technology giant Tencent is introducing tough new rules to identify under-age gamers, amid a crackdown on gaming addiction in the country.

From mid-September it will introduce a real-name registration system for its Honour of Kings games, which will be linked to China’s public security database.

It will identify children and restrict the time they spend on the game.

The move is the first of its kind in the world’s largest gaming market.

This story today, another story tomorrow, the potential reach of digital surveillance seems to have no practical limit. It is not so much that this is happening in China – the issue for those outside China is that their own government will be watching these developments.