China’s Social Credit System

Getty Images / WIRED It was a neighbour who turned Mr Yang in. The flat compound’s management were told he had been to Wuhan and that he had not reported it. They ordered him to self-quarantine for 14 days. He had no symptoms typical of the coronavirus, Covid-19, and was…

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Elon Musk believes the era of fighter jets is over and future warfare will be carried out by autonomous drones.The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the prediction while speaking with US Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida on Friday.'Drone warfare is where…

By Dan Wu and Greg Lindsaylong ReadWelcome to the city of the future, designed by Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet subsidiary.It’s a city where data and algorithms will merge imperceptibly with the physical world. Cameras lining the streets will track and collate objects and people. Heated sidewalks will recognize foot traffic…

Washington D.C., Feb 28, 2020 / 11:00 am (CNA).- U.S. Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback has warned that religious persecution is spreading worldwide, and highlighted the examples of anti-Christian violence in Nigeria and a growing religious surveillance state in China. Speaking to CNA on Thursday, Feb. 27,…

Over the past week, their Lunar New Year absence prolonged by the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese people have been gradually returning to work. As they prepare to leave their hometowns, they can, or are sometimes obliged to, provide personal data such as recent travel and health conditions on their smartphones, usually through Alibaba…

By John Klyczek As a result of federal initiatives to “get tough on crime,” such as the Reagan Administration’s War on Drugs and the Clinton Administration’s “Three Strikes” laws, the total number of incarcerated Americans more than quadrupled from roughly 500,000 inmates in 1980 to 2.2 million inmates in 2015.…

The Internet was originally envisaged as a place where people could share information freely from across the globe. Soon enough though, governments realize that this needed to change considering that such a power in the hands of people could be used for means not exactly in their favor. With this…

9 min read A sign outside a market writes no entry for those without masks on Feb 4, 2020. (Image credit: TechNode/ Shi Jiayi)This article was co-authored by David Cohen and Chris Udemans. As China goes back to work after weeks of epidemic lockdown, it’s betting on high-tech QR code…

Some four decades ago, Deng Xiao-ping, the paramount leader of Communist China, took command of a country that had been nearly wrecked through Mao Zedong’s radical Marxist experiments like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution and announced a new economic policy of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” Many experts…