The country wants to assign citizens a score that determines their eligibility for everything from loans to education.
Big Brother collecting big data — and in China, it's all for sale | CBC News
Inside China's Great Firewall, the internet is designed to gather information. And there's an industry of private and state-owned high-tech enterprises serving it.
China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone
The Communist Party wants to harness vast troves of online data to score people and companies on their behavior.
China’s Nightmarish Citizen Scores Are a Warning For Americans | ACLU
China is launching a comprehensive “credit score” system, and the more I learn about it, the more nightmarish it seems. China appears to be leveraging all the tools of the information age—electronic purchasing data, social networks, algorithmic sorting—to construct the ultimate tool of social control. It is, as one commentator put it, “authoritarianism, gamified.” Read this piece for the full flavor—it will make your head spin. If that and the little other reporting I’ve seen is accurate, the basics are this:
In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do—your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
China wants to give all of its citizens a score – and those who fall short will be denied basic privileges
The Communist Party wants to encourage good behaviour by marking all its people using online data. Those who fall short will be denied basic freedoms like loans or travel
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system - Fast Company
In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law.
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China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.
Big Tech Pulled the Plug. They Downloaded Their Lovers.
How Chinese users created AI lovers, friends and family — and struggled to let them go
Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook
In his book 1984, George Orwell detailed a dystopian world wherein a person or persona called “Big Brother” saw everything that people did and where the central government pushed its agenda through propaganda, spying, monitoring, and thought controls. That book was published in 1949. It is now 2017, and while we do not exactly have […]
Who needs democracy when you have data?
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
Big Data’s Radical Potential
Today, big data is used to boost profits and spy on civilians. But what if it was harnessed for the social good?
Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook | Hacker News
As an example, just take a fairly normal life situation like going out for dinner with some friends, and think about how much of it goes "through" Google:
A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter (Published 2018)
Many foreign internet giants are blocked, leaving some young Chinese to wonder what those services even are — and reinforcing Beijing’s ideological control.
From Chile to the Philippines, meet the people pushing back on AI
Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs.
