China’s Social Credit System

Once upon a time, in the days when Russia was called the Soviet Union and Russians did things far more menacing than take out ads on websites, there was a thing called a "blacklist" in Hollywood. People on the blacklist were communists, who despite being paid…

Chinese citizens will soon have to start using facial identification in order to sign up for internet services or get a new mobile number.  The Chinese government announced last month that residents applying for a new mobile or internet device will have thei…

Authored by Aaron Kesel via ActivistPost.com, The Chinese government continues its Orwellian practices with the announcement that citizens will have to use facial recognition technology to access the internet (which is already highly fire-walled.) This is a…

After general manager of the Houston Rockets of NBA Daryl Morey posted inappropriate comments hurting Chinese fans in twitter, workers remove sponsor stands in front of Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, ahead of the NBA game between Lakers and Brooklyn Nets ta…

The 70th anniversary of the proclamation of the Chinese Peoples Republic on October 1, 2019, left the world in awe as China celebrated one of the most transformational moments in its over 3,000 years of history. After showing off its high-tech military arsena…

Skip to comments. Chinese citizens must pass a facial-recognition test to use the internet (social credit system)Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 2 October 2019 | BILLIE THOMSON Posted on 10/07/2019 7:33:18 AM PDT by Mount Athos China has stepped up its internet ce…

Photo by Candida.Performa Our China data privacy lawyers  have been getting a steady stream of questions regarding our recent post, Chinas New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide, regarding the Chinese government’s rolling out a new system for monitoring…

By Aaron Kesel The Chinese government continues its Orwellian practices with the announcement that citizens will have to use facial recognition technology to access the internet (which is already highly fire-walled.) This is all a part of China’s social cre…

This is the twentieth episode in our ongoing Saturday series on eight+ things to read about China and a lot more. We constantly get emails from readers asking what to read on China and all sorts of things related and even barely related to China and this seri…

A major priority of the protest movement that has consumed Hong Kong for the past three and a half months has been to thwart the surveillance apparatus that's virtually everywhere. Demonstrators have felled camera poles with chainsaws, spray-painted security …