China’s Social Credit System

Veteran journalist and political commentator Willy Lam spoke to RFA's Cantonese Service on Tuesday about why the ruling Chinese Communist Party hasn't cracked down on Hong Kong yet, in spite of escalating protests against amendments to the city's extradition …

The 21st century is a great time to be alive. We drive electric cars, we’re curing diseases with CRISPR, and we’ll soon be returning to the moon in rockets more reusable than the Space Shuttle ever was. But it’s not all silicon and sunshine – our future has …

In the face of mounting pressure on personal freedom, Chinese internet users appear to be trying more actively to push back against tightening digital surveillance from Beijing.  On both Chinese and foreign websites, discussions, tips and software hacks to c…

The Whitehall machine will be remodelled on the Chinese Communist Party In many of his posts, Cummings argues that the civil service is ill-equipped to execute policy, and that ‘failure is normal’ because Whitehall has been built on a system of distorted rel…

Skip to comments. The RoboCops Are HereTownhall.com ^ | August 3, 2019 | Erich Reimer Posted on 08/03/2019 5:46:12 AM PDT by Kaslin Almost 30 years after “RoboCop” was released to theaters its modern incarnation has finally arrived. Huntington Park, a…

The worlds governments and peoples must decide how to address the increasing surveillance and data collection and the resulting loss of privacy that digital formats provide. In recent years, much of this attention has focused on the rapidly building surveilla…

According to a news item published on 10 June on the website of the International Cooperation Center () of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC, ), a Chinese delegation visited the Czech Republic in late June. Talks with Vladimír Bärtl, Deputy…

In effect since May 2018, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has forced companies across the world to rethink their approach to data governance. In the past year, the law has drawn fines from companies like British Airways and Google. The legislation h…

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is breathing fresh life into small businesses in China via his four-year-old online lending solution MYbank. As per a Bloomberg report, the platforms real-time payments data and a risk-management system analyses over 3,000 variables t…

Why Congress should stop deferring to federal agencies to set privacy policy Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This story is part of a group of stories called The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy. Subs…