Chinese courts have put on social-credit punishment list about 13.5 million people deemed untrustworthy GlobeBusiness
Commuters run a gamut of surveillance cameras installed at a walkway in between two subway stations in Beijing.People deemed untrustworthy in China have been blocked from the purchase of more than 25 million plane and train tickets, as the country works to build a social-credit system designed to monitor and shape the conduct of its citizens.
Critics have raised alarm about the construction of a “digital panopticon” that leverages the power and rising technological sophistication of the world’s largest authoritarian regime to monitor its people for compliance to government dictates in ways never before possible. “One of the big misconceptions people have is there’s one big blacklist,” she said. Instead, various industries and governments have created their own lists.
Publishing substantial figures can “show people who think it’s unfair that people go unpunished that, ‘Look we’re doing something,’” she said. It can also “deter people who might do those things again: ’Look, millions of you are getting caught.’” The discipline of people deemed dishonest, through the denial of certain buying privileges, is effectively “the first step of the construction of social credit,” he said.
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