As Britain debates digital IDs, critics warn of a slippery slope into a high-surveillance future. The spectre raised is invariably China, and its Orwellian-sounding “Social Credit” system. That’s the ...

Your smartphone is a snitch, and it's been ratting you out for years. Every app you use, every ride you take, every post you like - it's all part of an invisible social credit system that's been ...

That payment app crash when you tried to donate to a controversial cause likely wasn’t a glitch. Your bank’s sudden “risk assessment” after attending certain events probably wasn’t random. The ...

For example, in 2019, mixed martial arts fighter Xu Xiaodong made headlines when his social credit score was lowered “for insulting tai chi grandmaster Chen Xiaowang,” according to Quartz, which also ...

From penalising irresponsible dog owners to blacklisting dissenters, critics warn China's social credit system enables authorities to define "desirable and undesirable behaviour" and could allow ...

Why did the inventor of the first internet web browser, and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today — Marc Andreessen — switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic ...

The Chinese social credit system has been given an unequivocally negative reception by the media in the west. Set to be rolled out nationwide in 2020, the system has even... ‘If you’re a soldier in ...

Prominent universities across America are now adopting a new admissions process that is remarkably similar to the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System. After the Supreme Court ruled that ...