China’s Social Credit System

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Smart city surveillance, is much worse than anyone could have imagined. Two years ago, I revealed how a CIA “signature school” was installing thousands of CCTV cameras and microphones in smart cities, but Sidewalk Labs wants to take public surveillance to a …

Skip to comments. China's social credit: Everyone gives Chicoms photos of their faces ... just to see the zooAmerican Thinker ^ | 11/04/2019 | Monica Showalter Posted on 11/05/2019 7:43:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind To go to a zoo and see the gorillas in so…

A Kenyan farmer stands proudly, looking at his crops while talking on his mobile. A group of Bangladeshi women cluster around a phone to get some health information. Children in an Indian slum look absorbed as they navigate their way through an educational ga…

By MassPrivateI Smart city surveillance is much worse than anyone could have imagined. Two years ago, I revealed how a CIA “signature school” was installing thousands of CCTV cameras and microphones in smart cities, but Sidewalk Labs wants to take public su…

Published: 10:00pm, 5 Nov, 2019 Updated: 10:00pm, 5 Nov, 2019

The founder of a Chinese smartphone company which has been a vocal critic of Apple has landed on Chinas official list of deadbeats. This is a national database held by Chinas Supreme Court which can be described as a credit blacklist. Smartisan Technology CE…

Permanent Record In China, a formalized social credit score can determine whether youre allowed to take out loans or even use public transit. The system is often held up as a particularly dystopian application of big data analytics and now it seems as though…