Published: January 10th, 2022,
Last updated: January 10th, 2022
Peter Ganten already warned back in the 1990s that the misuse of software by governments and large corporations would put our democracy and freedom in serious danger. In China’s authoritarian and obscure use of high-tech, the psychologist and software entrepreneur now sees some of his worst digital nightmares come true. What can be done to counter the horror scenario of Social Credit and the like, before China exports it to the world? More open-source software and a finer awareness of digital autocratic tendencies, Ganten explains to our author Marcel Grzanna in our interview.