China’s Social Credit System

By Aaron Kesel Anonymous has hacked into various Chinese websites and databases dumping files from government employee data to corporate data including user names, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, passwords for databases, IP addresses and more. It is a…

Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Recent protests in Hong Kong, along with the resulting fall out from international corporations questioned for their relationships with mainland China, has placed a renewed focus on the authoritarianism of the …

Recent protests in Hong Kong, along with the resulting fall out from international corporations questioned for their relationships with mainland China, has placed a renewed focus on the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party. This has led to several…

Recent protests in Hong Kong, along with the resulting fall out from international corporations questioned for their relationships with mainland China, has placed a renewed focus on the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party. This has led to several …

China’s military could implement a blockchain rewards system to manage personnel data and incentivize its workforce, the Global Times reported on Nov. 18. Citing a People's Liberation Army (PLA) Daily report, the Global Times underscores that the blockchain …

Someone inside the Communist Party of China took a very brave decision to leak 400 pages of documents about the country’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang province to an American newspaper. The documents shed some light on the creation of the ca…

The Great Hack's Professor David Carroll Netflix A revolution is brewing, resistance is growing, could the end be nigh for surveillance capitalism, a term which Harvards Shoshana Zuboff coined to describe how the human experience has been productized by cor…

They said blockchain would bring freedom by challenging world governments and greedy financial institutions. But what if blockchain is the ideal tool to enable totalitarianism? What if China Moves its Social Credit System to Blockchain? A few weeks ago, Chi…

China's biggest rubbish dump, which is 500 feet deep and the size of nearly 100 football pitches, will soon be filled up, according to the country's state media. The massive Jiangcungou landfill site, situated in Xi'an in north-western China, opened in 1994 …

Since the Peoples Republic of China announced in 2014 that they will launch a new system that is supposed to make sure its citizens and corporations will become more trustworthy (as the China Daily has reported), it has been a hot topic of speculation among W…