China’s Social Credit System

It is nearly impossible to live in todays world without having come across mention of the legendary Noam Chomsky. His work as a linguist, historian, political activist and philosopher, which spans nearly a century, has had an immeasurable impact on contempora…

SHANGHAI, Jan. 7, 2019 -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the groundbreaking ceremony of Tesla ... Shanghai gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, Jan. 7, 2019. (Xinhua/Ding Ting) (Xinhua/ via Getty Images) Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images China’s social credit system is planned to go active throughout that nation this year. It’s…

Call it their 'inner Viking' coming out.In response to a creepy request from communist Chinese minders to remove Falun Gong and other politically embarrassing books from a village public library while the Chinese ski team trains there, a humble Norwegian libr…

Dead center on the front page of The New York Times' last Sunday edition of 2019, a headline: "As it detains parents, China weans children from Islam." Its subheading, equally ready for distribution to newspaper stands in Beijing: "New boarding schools redire…

China's attacks on freedom are legion, including ongoing repression of religion and a "social credit" system to enforce "correct behavior" and punish dissent. Now the government is demanding blood samples from children. Bitter Winter, which reports on relig…

Lawmakers are too busy wrestling with matters related to President Donald Trumps impeachment to address issues related to the governments deployment of facial recognition technology. Big tech is selling such technological know-how to police agencies and embe…

We all know jolly ol St. Nick just loves lists, which is an attribute he shares with the researcher elves here at Rapid7 Labs. Unlike Sir Kringle, our lists arent focused on normalizing the inevitability of a pervasive surveillance state nor intended to estab…

Image copyrightGetty Images China has one of the most tightly controlled internet environments in the world, but despite this its 854 million internet users yet again in 2019 found ways to challenge the government or talk about the issues they want to discus…

Lawmakers are too busy wrestling with matters related to President Donald Trump’s impeachment to address issues related to the government’s deployment of facial recognition technology. Big tech is selling such technological know-how to police agencies and em…

Looking back on a historical period from its end is a dicey proposition. Even when it is clear that a turning point has been reached, it is often hard to know with any certainty which way things are about to turn. At the end of the 1960s, how many confidently…