China’s Social Credit System

What is happening with the U.S. announcement on Hong Kong and China? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday his report to Congress the U.S. State Department’s determination that “Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, given facts on the ground.” The Secretary concluded his momentous tweet, “The…

Scholar Noam Chomsky says that the greatest impact in politics comes from “your constant, day-to-day activist work, the kind of things that change the social conditions, the understanding, the background under which changes can happen.” He spoke with David Barsamian about the challenges of responding to the coronavirus, the future…

The Chinese city of Hangzhou is considering proposals to make the smartphone-based coronavirus health tracking system permanent, expanding it to include factors such as how much sleep citizens are getting, how much alcohol they drink, and how frequently they exercise. China’s health tracking system uses a smartphone app that became,…

Chinese officials in the city of Hangzhou are considering making permanent a smartphone-based health-rating system developed to trace COVID-19, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The tech hub located near Shanghai was among the first cities to roll out a health-rating app. The app traces a person’s travel history and…

A Chinese city is proposing a permanent health tracking app that gives people a daily score based on their habits like drinking, sleeping, and walking.It would be similar to China's coronavirus tracking app, which gave people a color code that dictated whether they enter certain areas, and could track who…

Peter Morici Published: May 26, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. ET The U.S. must articulate a clear vision of a new multilateralism China is crushing democracy in Hong Kong. AFP via Getty Images In the wake of COVID-19, Americans have developed an increasingly negative view of China, and the policy of…

The City of Hangzhou is planning to make a contact tracing system developed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic permanent for its citizens. Hangzhou, one of the major tech hubs in China, is planning to permanently use the tracking system developed to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. The city’s health commission declared…

(CNN)Imagine a smartphone app that has access to your medical records and assigns you a daily score based on your preconditions, recent checkups and lifestyle habits -- how much you've drunk, smoked, exercised and slept on any given day can all affect your points total, boosting or lowering your ranking.That…

Governments are implementing surveillance technologies to monitor and control the spread of COVID-19. Credit: Shutterstock The coronavirus pandemic has stirred up a surveillance storm. Researchers rush to develop new forms of public health monitoring and tracking, but releasing personal data to private companies and governments carries risks to our individual…

New York: The role of technology in helping push back against the novel coronavirus has been hailed widely. But it also means that people are constantly being watched by entities that can set the tone for public behaviour without giving a shred of consideration to people’s privacy. One of the…