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China Releases Social Credit System Music Video
An offshoot of the Chinese Communist Youth League published a video featuring Chinese celebrities promoting the nation’s totalitarian social credit system to young people, urging them to give “thumbs up to integrity,” Australia’s ABC News reported on Wednesday.
Muslim Internment Camps, Social Credit System Absent from Time 100 Feature on Xi Jinping by Jon Huntsman
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has used “a blend of soft and hard power to boost China’s international image,” Time magazine noted Wednesday in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
China’s Social Credit System Humiliates ‘Deadbeats’ with Embarrassing Ringtone
China’s “social credit” system–a dystopian surveillance nightmare that monitors people in countless ways and automatically dishes out punishments for poor citizenship and political dissidence–is humiliating “discredited individuals” by forcing them to use an embarrassing ringtone on their cell phones.
Mastercard Shares Details of ‘Digital Identity’ System
Details have been revealed about Mastercard’s controversial “digital identity” system, which will “bind” your identity to a smartphone or other device, and which has been compared to China’s social credit system and the bleak futurism of Netflix series Black Mirror.
Donald Trump Jr: ‘Left Unchecked, Big Tech Could Construct Social Credit System’
Donald Trump Jr. warned in an article for the Hill, Sunday, that Big Tech companies could soon construct a communist-style social credit system if “left unchecked.”
Chinese Actress Blocked from Travel by Social Credit System
Actress and former Miss Chinese International Michelle Ye Xuan, whose resume includes numerous films and television shows, has become the highest-profile “untrustworthy” citizen to be banned from travel by China’s social credit system, a massive surveillance and data-mining operation that grades Chinese for the quality of their citizenship and punishes those with poor scores.
China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Blocks 23 Million Purchases of Train and Plane Tickets
The UK Guardian reported on Friday that China’s “social credit system,” a vast surveillance network and database system designed to punish Chinese for poor citizenship, has blocked travelers from buying 17.5 million airplane tickets and 5.5 million train tickets.
Canada Creates ‘Risk Tracking Database’ with Disturbing Parallels to China’s Social Credit System
Canada has assembled a “Risk-Driven Tracking Database” (RTD) that collates a great deal of information about people who are vulnerable to crime and misfortune, making them known to social service agencies and law enforcement so they can benefit from proactive services.
China: Social Credit System Finds ‘Untrustworthy Businesses’ Thriving Among Wealthy
China’s creepy “social credit system,” a vast surveillance network that rates both companies and individual citizens for “good behavior” and has a variety of tools for punishing those who behave badly, is also proving useful for accumulating socioeconomic data. A report released this week by China’s National Public Credit Information Center used data from the social credit system to determine that a large percentage of “untrustworthy businesses” are operating in China’s wealthiest regions.
Beijing Debuts Plan to Monitor Behavior of Every Resident by End of 2020
Beijing announced an “action plan” this week for monitoring residents’ behavior, adding that the city expects to have its social credit system fully implemented by the end of 2020.
Report: Chinese Telecom Giant Building Venezuela a ‘Social Credit System’
Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is helping the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela to create a social credit system known as the “Fatherland Card,” similar to the system already implemented by Beijing.
China Celebrates Social Credit System Blocking People from over 11 Million Flights
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper reported on Monday that over 11.14 million instances of individuals not being able to board flights – and 4.25 million similar incidents on trains – had occurred “by the end of April.”
