Visa, Mastercard, Huawei and spying
In the days before smart-phones if I wanted to develop a ubiquitous mechanism of spying on people I would probably start with an electronic payment system that tracked everything that people bought and where.
This is not an original thought - and there is a reason why Visa and Mastercard cannot crack the Chinese market.
But the Chinese government and its (compromised or stupid) proxies in the West tell us we should open ourselves to Huawei (which provides a much better mechanism for spying).
I would normally bet that wouldn't happen - but given the quality of Western political leadership these days nothing much would surprise me.
Just making an obvious observation that I have not seen elsewhere.
John