China’s Social Credit System

The worlds governments and peoples must decide how to address the increasing surveillance and data collection and the resulting loss of privacy that digital formats provide. In recent years, much of this attention has focused on the rapidly building surveilla…

According to a news item published on 10 June on the website of the International Cooperation Center () of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC, ), a Chinese delegation visited the Czech Republic in late June. Talks with Vladimír Bärtl, Deputy…

In effect since May 2018, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has forced companies across the world to rethink their approach to data governance. In the past year, the law has drawn fines from companies like British Airways and Google. The legislation h…

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is breathing fresh life into small businesses in China via his four-year-old online lending solution MYbank. As per a Bloomberg report, the platforms real-time payments data and a risk-management system analyses over 3,000 variables t…

Why Congress should stop deferring to federal agencies to set privacy policy Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This story is part of a group of stories called The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy. Subs…

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BROWNBACK: Hi, guys. Hi, folks. DIAS: Good evening! We are glad to be here, and thank you so much, Ambassador Brownback, for sitting down with me and with all of these fine folks who have traveled from very far. I hearI would be curious to take a poll to se…

Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next. Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that analyses more than 3,000 variables, Ma’s four-year-old MYbank has lent 2 trillion yuan ($290 bill…

Jack Ma’s online bank is leading a quiet revolution in the way China lends to small businesses, taking aim at a credit bottleneck that has held back Asia’s largest economy for decades. Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that analyzes …