Facial Recognition for a Free Travel Ticket in China? Welcome To Orwell’s 1984
By Aaron Kesel China wants to give its prisoners (populace) the ability to pay with their faces to ride subways; this will be combined with…
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Penn State Prof: Social Credit Will Shift Law in the West “From Constitution… to Analytics and Algorithm”
By Daniel Taylor A.I. driven social scores to supplant the Constitution? Professor Larry Backer of Penn State University writes in a 2018 paper that resistance…
Social Credit Comes to US Shores: Consumers Denied Services Based on Shadowy “Security Ratings”
By Janet Phelan Another blip in what appears to be subtle yet rampant discrimination levied against certain American citizens has emerged on the social radar….
Social Credit: The U.S. Denied Entry To Student Because of His Friends’ Social Media Posts
By Mac Slavo A Harvard student has been denied entry to the United States because of what friends of his posted on social media. Ismail…
Silicon Valley Is Building A Chinese-Style Social Credit System
By Mac Slavo Companies in the United States, and more specifically, Silicon Valley, are building a social credit system for individuals. Much like the social…
Forget 1984, We’re Facing a Brave New World
By Eta Ornish I see quite frequently, people warning that the US is becoming an ‘Orwellian nightmare,’ or that we’re living in a country that’s…
Chinese State Media Announces 2.56M “Discredited Entities” Prevented From Purchasing Plane Tickets Under Social Credit System
By Chris Menahan This is the system our ruling oligarchs are trying to implement in America. China restricted 2.56 million discredited entities from purchasing plane…
Everyone’s Got a “Surveillance Score” and It Can Cost You BIG Money
By Dagny Taggart In these Orwellian times, when it is revealed that yet another government agency is spying on us in yet another way, most…
Human Rights Watch Reverse-Engineers Mass Surveillance App used by Police in Xinjiang
By Gennie Gebhart For years, Xinjiang has been a testbed for the Chinese government’s novel digital and physical surveillance tactics, as well as human rights…
China Smart Grid Tyranny Spreads to Australia
By Daniel Taylor On this May day, alarm bells should be sounding as China’s internet standards and surveillance grid is spreading around the globe. As…
We’re All Being Judged By A Secret “Trustworthiness” Score
By Tyler Durden (Activist Post Editor’s Note: This topic was covered extensively this month in our premium newsletter Counter Markets. You can get a free…
“Map of Deadbeat Debtors”: China Launches New App That Turns Citizens Into Snitches
By Elias Marat Officials in China have launched a new app that notifies users if someone within 500 yards of them is in debt. Dubbed…
Why China’s “Social Credit” Scheme Will Create More Corruption, Not a Better Citizenry
By Sarah Lilly News of China’s social credit system has been making waves across media outlets for months. Some publications are going soft on the…
Venezuela Joins the Social Credit Club
By James Corbett So you’re familiar with China’s social credit system by now, right? You know, the one that I’ve been talking about for years?…