Millions of Chinese travelers were banned from buying airline tickets last year because of outstanding social credit offenses. According to the Associated Press, individuals were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million times last year for such offenses as unpaid taxes and fines. Data from to the...
A former deputy director of China’s development research center of the State Council, Hou Yunchun, said the country’s social credit system has to punish defaulters. According to a report in the Global Times citing comments Hou made at Sina Finance, a credit development forum held each...
July 26, 2019
China is racing to become the first country to implement a pervasive system of algorithmic surveillance, igniting fears that the government will control its citizens’ lives. The country will step up the building of its planned social credit system by rolling out new market regulatory measures in an effort to meet its self-imposed 2020 deadline, […]
March 05, 2019
Millions of Chinese travelers were banned from buying airline tickets last year because of outstanding social credit offenses. According to the Associated Press, individuals were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million...
May 21, 2018
A former deputy director of China’s development research center of the State Council, Hou Yunchun, said the country’s social credit system has to punish defaulters. According to a report in...
