China’s Social Credit System

New legislation in China requiring telecom operators to collect face scans of their new phone users came into effect on Sunday. The regulation, which passed as legislation in September, will supposedly help “protect the legitimate rights and interests of cit…

CROCKERY-BASED LANDMASS China has tightened the regulations over mobile phone contracts to include facial recognition and it's so creepy we're actively cringing. The ruling, which came into force on Sunday, means that all new mobile phone contracts taken out…

China has made it a legal requirement for people signing up to new mobile phone and data plans to have their faces scanned, in a major growth of the surveillance state. The new rules, outlined by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT…

China's mass surveillance strategy moved up a step on Sunday as new mobile phone users were told to undergo face scans to help prove their identities. The Agence France-Presse news agency cited a source from the state-owned telecoms giant China Unicom as say…

Face scanning is now a requirement in China when buying a new mobile phone or data plan - www.alamy.com China has made it a legal requirement for people signing up to new mobile phone and data plans to have their faces scanned, in a major growth of the surve…

Image copyrightAFP Image captionChina has for years been trying to enforce rules to ensure that everyone using the internet does so under their “real-name” identities People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile p…

Skip to comments. Chinas Social Credit Tyranny with American Characteristics and American TechnologyInternational Policy Digest ^ | Nov. 2019 | Felix Imonti Posted on 11/30/2019 2:27:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind For China, technology is a weapon that is to…

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…