{"id":13127,"date":"2019-08-26T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13127"},"modified":"2019-08-26T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:49:47","slug":"uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-26-Uh-oh-Silicon-Valley-is-building-a-Chinese-style-social-credit-system.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-26-Uh-oh-Silicon-Valley-is-building-a-Chinese-style-social-credit-system.png 978w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-26-Uh-oh-Silicon-Valley-is-building-a-Chinese-style-social-credit-system-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-26-Uh-oh-Silicon-Valley-is-building-a-Chinese-style-social-credit-system-768x386.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>In China, scoring citizens\u2019 behavior is official  government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something  similar, outside the law. <\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>FASTCOMPANY<\/strong>, by Mike Elgan &#8212; August 26, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Have you heard about China\u2019s <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40563225\/chinas-terrifying-social-credit-surveillance-system-is-expanding\" target=\"_blank\"><em>social credit system<\/em><\/a><em>?  It\u2019s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program  designed to nudge citizens toward better behavior. The ultimate goal is  to \u201callow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making  it hard for the discredited to take a single step,\u201d according to the  Chinese government.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In  place since 2014, the social credit system is a work in progress that  could evolve by next year into a single, nationwide point system for all  Chinese citizens, akin to a financial credit score. It aims to punish  for transgressions that can include membership in or support for the  Falun Gong or Tibetan Buddhism, failure to pay debts, excessive video  gaming, criticizing the government, late payments, failing to sweep the  sidewalk in front of your store or house, smoking or playing loud music  on trains, jaywalking, and other actions deemed illegal or unacceptable  by the Chinese government.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90394048\/uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90394048\/uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, scoring citizens\u2019 behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law. FASTCOMPANY, by Mike Elgan &#8212; August 26, 2019 Excerpt: Have you heard about China\u2019s social credit system? It\u2019s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13130,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions\/13130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}