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Pilots underway. The impetus to create a social credit system in China came largely from the country's dearth of a credit rating infrastructure; most people have no credit score.In 2014 the ...

China's social credit system has been compared to Black Mirror, Big Brother and every other dystopian future sci-fi writers can think up. The reality is more complicated — and in some ways ...

China began to create this system in 2010 as a pilot program but officially began implementing the construction of a nationwide social credit system in 2014.According to the government’s ...

China banned people from buying plane or train tickets 23 million times last year because they had poor social credit, according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of a government report.

The personal social credit system in China has already stopped the sale of roughly 26 million train and plane tickets. Soon, businesses will have to follow a stringent list of 300 requirements or ...

China's corporate social credit system, on the other hand, is more developed, as is its sanctions mechanism, the EU Chamber of Commerce in China observed in a 2019 report.

It’s easier to talk about what China’s social credit system isn’t than what it is.Ever since 2014, when China announced a six-year plan to build a system to reward actions that build trust ...

A Citizen Score in China. In a contentious world first, China plans to implement a social credit system (officially referred to as a Social Credit Score or SCS) by 2020. The idea first appeared in ...

As Rogier Creemers has pointed out, China’s social credit system, is not new — even within the context of technology-enabled surveillance and policing. The social credit system has clear antecedents ...

Chinese netizens are avid users of emoji and animated stickers. China’s two most popular social platforms, WeChat and Weibo, even have their own set of emoji. For different reasons, they also ...

In China, Alibaba’s Sesame Credit factors in credit scores of a debtor’s social network. This means that those with low-score contacts will see a negative impact on their own scores.