Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
Mara Hvistendahl, Wired, 2017/12/18
This article descibes China's embrace of electronic payments using WeChat and Alipay, and discusses its extension into personal credit. It them suggests a linkage between various plans to allocate people 'social credit' according to their social behaviour (for example, whether they were charged with offenses, whether they disrupted spociety). More...