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Old 11-10-2021, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC View Post
The so called paper did not go into any details as to how this would work and if all of our conversations will be monitored.

I suspect they just put it this way to frighten us. Will wait for facts to see what is going on.
This is true - the paper seems to have an agenda and often phrases things in ways that promote it.

It's easy enough to look at the Zencity site to get a feel for what the software does. No one's private conversations will be monitored - that is illegal. But the software can monitor public forums and get a sense for whether a topic is popular or unpopular. Kind of like taking a poll.
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