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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2018 9:54:28 GMT
www.yahoo.com/news/china-banning-people-bad-apos-134659404.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=maChina has announced new measures that mean citizens with bad “social credit” will be restricted from travelling. Acts that can earn you a place on the blacklist - barring you from trains and planes - include smoking on public transport and using expired tickets, as well as more sweeping and vaguely defined violations such as “spreading false information about terrorism”. According to Reuters, the new rules will come into effect on May 1, and it’s all part of President Xi Jinping’s plan to construct a social credit system based on the principle of “once untrustworthy, always restricted”.
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2018 9:55:05 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2018 10:38:17 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2018 10:09:04 GMT
www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-31/chinas-social-credit-system-punishes-untrustworthy-citizens/9596204 (China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviour) ' Chinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed trains, according to a report by the country's National Development and Reform Commission. The announcements offer a glimpse into Beijing's ambitious attempt to create a Social Credit System (SCS) by 2020 — that is, a proposed national system designed to value and engineer better individual behaviour by establishing the scores of 1.4 billion citizens and "awarding the trustworthy" and "punishing the disobedient". Liu Hu, a 43-year-old journalist who lives in China's Chongqing municipality, told the ABC he was "dumbstruck" to find himself caught up in the system and banned by airlines when he tried to book a flight last year. Mr Liu is on a "dishonest personnel" list — a pilot scheme of the SCS — because he lost a defamation lawsuit in 2015 and was asked by the court to pay a fine that is still outstanding according to the court record. "No one ever notified me," Mr Liu, who claims he paid the fine, said. Like the other 7 million citizens deemed to be "dishonest" and mired in the blacklist, Mr Liu has also been banned from staying in a star-rated hotel, buying a house, taking a holiday, and even sending his nine-year-old daughter to a private school. ' read more; www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-31/chinas-social-credit-system-punishes-untrustworthy-citizens/9596204
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2018 21:58:09 GMT
Technocracy In India: Fingerprint And Eye Scans Required For Food And Medicine - India collects biometric data on 1.3 billion residents for use in a nationwide identity system called Aadhaar. Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones. Civil libertarians are horrified, viewing the program, called Aadhaar, as Orwell’s Big Brother brought to life. To the government, it’s more like “big brother,” a term of endearment used by many Indians to address a stranger when asking for help. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other champions of the program say that Aadhaar is India’s ticket to the future, a universal, easy-to-use ID that will reduce this country’s endemic corruption and help bring even the most illiterate into the digital age. The poor must scan their fingerprints at the ration shop to get their government allocations of rice. Retirees must do the same to get their pensions. Middle-school students cannot enter the water department’s annual painting contest until they submit their identification. ' read more: www.technocracy.news/index.php/2018/04/10/technocracy-in-india-fingerprint-and-eye-scans-required-for-food-and-medicine/ |
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2018 21:58:47 GMT
China's facial recognition cameras pick man out of crowd of 60,000 - On the night of April 7, nearly 60,000 people - or roughly 1 per cent of the city's population - had gathered at the Nanchang International Sports Center for a concert by Cantopop legend Jacky Cheung. And so it was there, amid the sea of faces in a packed stadium, with everyone's attention presumably turned to the stage, that the fugitive assumed he was safe from authorities. But in the middle of an upbeat electronic song about summer romance, a pair of police officers began descending the aisles, according to footage posted on the Chinese video sharing site Miaopai. Soon, they had arrived at the row they were looking for and apprehended the 31-year-old. ' read more: www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-s-facial-recognition-cameras-pick-man-out-of-crowd-of-60-000-20180414-p4z9kp.html |
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2018 12:20:32 GMT
China Construction Bank opens a branch managed by robots - After the introduction of unstaffed convenience stores and cashier-less karaoke booths, self-service bank branches now look like they are becoming a reality. China Construction Bank (CCB), the nation’s second largest lender by assets, opened one in Shanghai this week, run by pure technology including facial recognition (FR), artificial intelligent (AI) and virtual reality (VR). Hyped as a first for the Chinese banking industry, the Beijing-based bank says it has already installed 1,600 smart machines at its 360 branches in the city to ramp up its appeal to tech-savvy customers and trim staff costs. Walking through the front door of the branch, users first meet a friendly looking robot that answers inquiries via voice recognition. * www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2141203/meet-new-face-branch-banking#comments |
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Post by Admin on May 11, 2018 10:55:28 GMT
Inside China's "social credit" system, which blacklists citizens - In the summer of 2016, Xie Wen applied for a loan at the bank and was rejected. Later, he tried to purchase a plane ticket online but was blocked by the system. “That is when I knew I was blacklisted,” Xie said. He had been added to the Chinese Supreme Court’s list of “discredited” persons or entities, which usually targets people who refuse to repay debts. In Xie’s case, his advertising company was sued by another firm over a contract dispute and lost. The judge ordered Xie to pay $127,000, which he didn’t. Seven months later, without notice, Xie’s name was added to the blacklist – one that companies are encouraged to check before entering deals. “It hurt my business,” Xie said. “My clients didn’t trust me. I didn’t get much work.” Since the blacklist was created in October 2013, 9.59 million people have been to the list. ' Read more: www.marketplace.org/2018/02/13/world/social-credit-score-china-blacklisted |
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