China’s Social Credit System

By Aaron Kesel The Chinese government continues its Orwellian practices with the announcement that citizens will have to use facial recognition technology to access the internet (which is already highly fire-walled.) This is all a part of China’s social cre…

This is the twentieth episode in our ongoing Saturday series on eight+ things to read about China and a lot more. We constantly get emails from readers asking what to read on China and all sorts of things related and even barely related to China and this seri…

A major priority of the protest movement that has consumed Hong Kong for the past three and a half months has been to thwart the surveillance apparatus that's virtually everywhere. Demonstrators have felled camera poles with chainsaws, spray-painted security …

Citizens in China must have their faces scanned to have the internet installedThe rule is part of Chinas social credit system and will take effect on Dec. 1Authority claimed the move could help improve the nations internet security

China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services. People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese autho…

My 23-year-old daughter recently passed her driving test (first time, too!). She had the usual difficulties young people in Ireland have with getting insured. After being quoted some astronomical premiums, she chose a company that put an electronic spy in her…

Researchers in China have developed an ultra-powerful camera capable of identifying a single person among stadium crowds of tens of thousands of people. The 500-megapixel camera was developed by scientists at Fudan University, in conjunction with Changchun I…

China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services. People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese autho…

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly used to classify employees, and there's a growing fear ... it might be used to classify people in other respects. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) 2017 Getty Images Recommending content, powering chatbo…

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Amy Webb PublicAffairs 320 pages ISBN: 978-1-5417-2441-9 £13.99 In her more paranoid books, Agatha Christie imagined that the world was being secretly and deliberately destabil…