Canadian technology exec bragged to world leaders about monitoring the public.
QUICK FACTS:
- Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans spoke to the World Economic Forum on Tuesday and bragged bout technology that could track individuals’ carbon footprints.
- Evans used personal travel and individual purchases as examples of what the carbon footprint tracker would keep up with and use to score private citizens.
- Evans said his company is working on the tracker but said it’s not yet in operation.
THEY’RE “DEVELOPING” THE TECH:
- “Were developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint. What does that mean? Where are they traveling? How are they traveling? What are they eating? What are they consuming on the platform?” Evans, a former Goldman Sachs executive, said.
- “So individual carbon footprint tracker. Stay tuned, we don’t have it operational yet, but this is something that we’re working on,” he went on to say.
BACKGROUND:
- In addition to the personal carbon footprint tracker, French central bank president François Villeroy de Galhau and Credit Suisse President Axel Lehmann spoke to world leaders about digital currency on Monday.
- Norwegian finance CEO Kjerstin Braathen spoke to the issue of small and medium businesses’ “energy transition,” saying it will create shortages and other pressures, but that the “pain” will be “worth it.”
