China’s Social Credit System

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…

Every now and then, our electoral system produces one of those quintessentially American characters who coopt the energy of the presidential voting cycle to become national celebrities or elevate an obscure social movement into greater popular visibility. In the current cycle, New Age guru Marianne Williamson, who popularized A Course…

China’s rush to reopen factories and markets in the midst of a poorly understood outbreak may backfire, a failure that could result in one of the worst depressions the world has ever seen. It’s no secret that the COVID-19 virus has dealt a punishing blow to the Chinese economy since…

Facial recognition surveillance technology is a hot-button issue that pulls together several major social concerns; privacy, profiling, authoritarianism and free expression. As both camera hardware and facial recognition software technologies advance to the point that a person can be added to a database and then located in a crowd in…

China releases tracking app to let citizens find out if they have been near anyone exposed to coronavirusSoftware can tell users if they have been near a confirmed or suspected caseIt is released by authorities and backed by Beijing's mass surveillance system People will need their phone number, name and ID information…

Authored by Raymond Ibrahim via The Gatestone Institute, The global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels: "260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world, notes the recently published Open Doors World Watch List 2020, an annual report that ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are most…

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…

China has released an app that lets users check if they have been in contact with a person confirmed or suspected having a coronavirus infection.As the death toll of the deadly outbreak tops 1,100, health authorities in the country have rolled out mobile software that comes with a "close contact…