China’s Social Credit System

Noah Smith: Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: "In 1998... David Brin published a remarkably prescient book... The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?... however powerful crowds with cameras m…

Next year, BMW plans to equip all plug-in hybrid models with a standard function that automatically switches the automobile into electric mode whenever it enters an area designated for emissions-free driving. While the change is universal, the feature won’t …

The Chinese Social Credit System, in particular as presented by Western media, is widely seen as the height of technological dystopia. But is that intuition well founded? Wessel Reijers has sought to identify features that he takes to justify a rejection of t…

Protesters in Hong Kong have taken to the streets for weeks, coming out in large numbers, blocking access to main roads and sometimes clashing with police in some of the largest demonstrations the city has seen in its history. But Hong Kong isn't just figh…

It has become fairly cliché to call Chinas surveillance stateits artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition, the new social credit system, its cultural policing and re-education camps for Uyghur minoritiessomething right out of George Orwells Nineteen …

The city of Suzhou, known as the Venice of the East for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today its drawing attention for another grand project: a sprawling n…

BEIJING - The city of Suzhou, known as “the Venice of the East” for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today it’s drawing attention for another grand project: …

(Bloomberg) --   The city of Suzhou, known as the Venice of the East for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today its drawing attention for another grand proj…

Democracy is in decline worldwide, with authoritarianism on the rise in numerous nations, including China. So it is particularly encouraging that people peacefully marching can still have an impact, as they have in Hong Kong in recent days. Up to 2 million p…

Its like a scene out of a horror movie But pure reality! An elite primary school in Hangzhou, China is making its students wear brainwave-reading headbands that can supposedly detect their attention levels in the classroom. The practice was exposed in a ser…