China’s Social Credit System

Buying a cellphone in the U.S. can be a complicated business. First you have to decide: Feature phone, Android, or iPhone? Then there's the credit check hassle, picking the right data plan, deciphering the contract, and setting up your payment plan. Buying a …

Its no secret that China keeps close tabs on its citizens. Recently, there have even been talks of the country unveiling a Social Credit System by 2020, where the government will monitor everyday activities such as recycling or littering and reward citizens a…

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…