China’s Social Credit System

Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next. Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that analyses more than 3,000 variables, Ma’s four-year-old MYbank has lent 2 trillion yuan ($290 bill…

Jack Ma’s online bank is leading a quiet revolution in the way China lends to small businesses, taking aim at a credit bottleneck that has held back Asia’s largest economy for decades. Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that analyzes …

SHANGHAI: Jack Ma’s online bank is leading a quiet revolution in the way China lends to small businesses, taking aim at a credit bottleneck that has held back Asia’s largest economy for decades. Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that…

Jack Ma’s online bank is leading a quiet revolution in the way China lends to small businesses, taking aim at a credit bottleneck that has held back Asia’s largest economy for decades. Using real-time payments data and a risk-management system that analyzes …

Even as cities across the US grapple with the spectre of omnipresent, automated government surveillance, and the existential threat to civil liberties that the technology holds, a number of nations around the globe have adopted these tools to monitor the lowe…

When I was a child, my mother counselled me: Dont trust people with your secrets because they will surely use them against you. Given her experience in Auschwitz during the second World War, that was sound advice at the time, but now we live in an age where t…

Disturbing Similarities Between its social credit system, car-tracking chips, and widespread use of facial recognition tech, China has earned a reputation as a surveillance state the likes of which previously only existed in dystopian fiction. But in a scat…

(Tribune News Service) Last October, software developers at Riot Games in Santa Monica fielded an unusual request. Like other video game makers, Riots success depends on its ability to make games that are compulsively playable, like its global hit League of L…

A couple travelling on a high-speed train in China were seen clipping their toenails and putting their bare feet on the tray table, to the horror of other passengers. The man and woman were on a train travelling to Jinan, Shandong last Friday when they decid…

Last October, software developers at Riot Games in Santa Monica fielded an unusual request. Like other video game makers, Riot’s success depends on its ability to make games that are compulsively playable, like its global hit “League of Legends.” But Tencent,…