China’s Social Credit System

It is striking when you find yourself living at major inflection points of history. After all, there is no such thing as quiet times. The 1990s, for instance, seem like a distant quiet time. But in that period, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Rwanda were happe…

If you watch the news regularly, you might think the world is a dangerous place, especially if you subscribe to one of the many online news aggregators that feed your paranoid echo chamber with personalized news feeds. In reality, both violent and property cr…

Advertisement The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is now law. Technically an amendment to the 1992 United States-Hong Kong Policy Act, which established that the United States would continue to treat Hong Kong as a separate economic and trade zone a…

Everything changed with Xi Jinping’s ascension to the top of the party and government in 2013. Xi embarked upon a brutal domestic campaign to suppress dissent, strengthen the CCP, purge potential adversaries, and seize personal control. The result is an ongoi…

One of the many reasons I jettisoned Facebook last year was because it kept trying to tell me that I was my brother. Let me explain. I have a twin brother, Ishaan, and while we are not identical twins, we look similar enough to mildly confuse people. Family, …

Skip to comments. Hong Kong's Ballots Challenge Chairman Mao's Gun BarrelsTownhall.com ^ | November 27, 2019 | Austin Bay Posted on 11/27/2019 6:10:59 AM PST by Kaslin The Hong Kong pro-democracy movement's overwhelming Nov. 24 election victory demonst…

A Beijing subway station is promoting a system that recognizes the faces of passengers and matches them to a database, as China’s adoption of surveillance technology gathers pace despite misgivings about privacy. Passengers will be able to use a facial recog…

by Nicholas Tang I am going to be honest: I hate Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs) with a passion. I think they are a menace to society, and the ban was wholly deserved. We all have the same grievances: we hate that PMDs move too quickly on what should be a…

Facial recognition technology came slamming into modern reality with very few people prepared for it. In many cases, we see it being used by governments and law enforcement agenciestesting its accuracy and value for future purposes. The most common argument …

Our digital future is at stake, warns Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School.  The latest Axel Springer Award winner sat down with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, to discuss her latest book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" …