The primary purpose of the social credit system may not be to censor companies, but censorship is undoubtedly within its scope. The US-China trade war may make Hanoi rethink its interest in ...

State-linked company China Youth Credit Management (CY Credit) is currently developing a social credit system designed to rewards its nation’s teenagers for good social behaviour, according to ...

It’s the most prominent in a rising network of social-credit-score systems in China that are dramatically expanding the concept of creditworthiness—and raising fears internationally about ...

Transparent citizens, police state, totalitarian rule: The catchphrases used to describe the Social Credit System (SCS) are oftentimes lurid. China has announced to introduce a rating system by 2020, ...

The growth of China's surveillance technology comes as the state rolls out an enormous "social credit system" that ranks citizens based on their behaviour, and doles out rewards and punishments ...

In 2014 China laid out an ambitious blueprint for a nationwide social-credit system: across a vast country of 1.4 billion it aims, by the end of next year, to have established the parameters to ...