China’s Social Credit System

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Expert Review by: Maryam Henein You may have heard about China’s social credit system — a dystopian monitoring scheme focused on the moral dimension of human life and behavior — which was conceived in 2014 and rolled out in in earnest in 2018. As reported by Business Insider in October that…

Story at-a-glance China started rolling out a social credit system in 2018, which awards and subtracts points for certain types of behavior Google is the largest monopoly the world has ever seen, and its data-siphoning tentacles reach deep into our everyday lives, collecting data on every move you make and…

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Story at-a-glance - China started rolling out a social credit system in 2018, which awards and subtracts points for certain types of behavior Google is the largest monopoly the world has ever seen, and its data-siphoning tentacles reach deep into our everyday lives, collecting data on every move you make…

The Chinese social credit system has been given an unequivocally negative reception by the media in the west. Set to be rolled out nationwide in 2020, the system has even been described by one journalist as China’s “most ambitious project in social engineering since the Cultural Revolution”. On the surface,…