China’s Social Credit System

Skip to comments. Chinas new social credit system turns Orwells 1984 into realityNY Post ^ | 05/18/2019 | Steven W. Mosher Posted on 05/18/2019 9:51:31 AM PDT by DFG Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren,…

By Aaron Kesel You can’t run, you can’t hide; facial recognition technology is advancing at a quickening pace, it’s becoming more widespread and accurate, and we are entering the path of no return. A report from Georgetown researchers states that agencies i…

Firstly, are these nations necessarily treating their people better because of this greater degree of freer trade?  Using China as an example, although for some time it appeared as if China was losing its grip on its people, allowing a greater degree of freed…

China's social credit system, which rates its 1.4 billion citizens based on their daily behaviour, will help the country restore morality, state media reported.  'China's ongoing construction of the world's largest social credit system will help the country …

The city of San Francisco has decided to stop the adoption of facial recognition technology in its tracks by banning its use by law enforcement agencies.San Francisco is slowly becoming a new hotbed for tech startups, some of which might be creating new appli…

The city of San Francisco has decided to stop the adoption of facial recognition technology in its tracks by banning its use by law enforcement agencies. San Francisco is slowly becoming a new hotbed for tech startups, some of which might be creating new ap…

The Boundary of Security & Privacy Privacy is becoming an ever increasing concern in our world today. Social Networks today are now focusing on users privacy given the inherent security risks posed by organizations access to personally identifiable inform…

Social credit system coming to China, with citizens scored on behavior

That headline, appearing on the Nieman Lab website on April 29, is, of course, intended to be sarcastic; the author, one Joshua Benton, doesnt like the idea at all.   The Nieman article links to a listing on Amazons recruiting site for a position at its Ring…

China is waging an unprecedented, high-tech crackdown in the Xinjiang region, home to a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority called the Uighurs. Officials there use an intrusive app where they are prompted to log extremely personal information like political views,…