China’s Social Credit System

Looking back on a historical period from its end is a dicey proposition. Even when it is clear that a turning point has been reached, it is often hard to know with any certainty which way things are about to turn. At the end of the 1960s, how many confidently…

Chris note: Its one of the craziest stories Ive read all year. China in its race for world supremacy is now focused on mastering facial recognition. Thats right. Earlier this month, it was reported that Chinas now using millions of Zimbabwes citizens to imp…

Cmon! Is this how you want to sign off 2019? Well, to be fair, I havent made a statement yet. But standing at gate 2020 and looking back at the events that have shaped the passing year, all one can feel is an eerie sense of insecurity. And there is…

Sydney - The Surveillance Society is having a great time tracking and demonstrations and individual protestors. So much data collection is instant, too, in real time. Its called location collection, and its a real risk to pers…

“Never in history have we had so much data at our disposal about human culture and behavior,” says Lev Manovich, “but as far as most artists and academics from the humanities are concerned, this data is ‘capitalism,’ so it’s considered bad, because money is b…

Skip to comments. China's march to be the world's first cashless societyThe Straights Times ^ | Harvey Morris Posted on 12/17/2019 9:32:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind China, the nation that introduced the world to banknotes, is now setting the pace in the comp…

The Chinese social credit system has been given an unequivocally negative reception by the media in the west. Set to be rolled out nationwide in 2020, the system has even been described by one journalist as China's "most ambitious project in social engineerin…

I’ve been watching a slow-motion trainwreck within the young tech community. There are also many protests related to equality in the workplace, but that’s a separate topic. A significant number of young, woke tech workers have decided to start opposing the …

We are used to thinking only about our financial behaviors when trying to improve our credit scores. Thats probably because since the 1950s, FICOs ranking formula has been an industry standard for consumer credit of all kinds. But in recent years we have seen…

The value of informational privacy has long ceased to be seen merely in the protection or exercise of individual autonomy.  Already in the early 1980s, the German Federal Court pointed out that the political autonomy of citizens in exercising their democratic…