Are You Leaving a Digital Trail for FinTech Lenders to Follow?
We’ve written about China’s “credit rating” policy, which takes information from many public (and private) datasets, like your smartphone, social media, online shopping, search engine queries, payment schedules, and much more. The country’s government uses this information to create a creditworthiness profile of each citizen. If a citizen is found to be leaving the country […]
Democrats Need Voters to Get Riled Up About Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is on the chopping block yet again, and the outrage is growing. Leaders in the tech community (not to mention rank and file iPhone app developers) have repeatedly made their stance clear: without net neutrality regulations in place, their businesses are in trouble. After John Oliver unleashed an epic 20 minute tirade on […]
Why Would Apple Drop the Headphone Jack from New iPhone?
Apple has a history of making their own rules rather than following consumer expectations. In most industries — especially high-overhead ones like hardware — this approach would be disastrous. In spite of this, Apple has clearly gone on to become an iconic brand, dominating the mobile marketplace and supporting the premier platform for mobile app […]