China’s social credit system is widely viewed in the West as a digital surveillance system to categorise and guide people through reward and punishment. This perception continues despite efforts by ...

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 ...

The potential power of China's nascent social-credit system was glimpsed last month with the announcement that millions of Chinese were banned last year from traveling by air or high-speed rail.

— “Infinite” by Hoàng Nhuận Cầm (1952-2021). As if Vietnam still needed more legal frameworks, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced a draft proposal to rate “digital citizens” last December ...