Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future
The New York Times tells the story of a young college graduate from a poor rural area whose academic career and hopes for a promising future were erased when his personal file disappeared from the...
View ArticleChina’s Lost Files
From the Financial Times, a look at the personal employment file that follows all Chinese citizens throughout their lives: While China has long since replaced its communist economy with a kind of raw...
View ArticleA Rare Look Into One’s Life on File in China
Authorities in China maintain a personal file, or dang’an, on every citizen, which starts while they are in school with report cards and continues into adulthood with, “religious affiliations,...
View Article“Amazon Consumer Tracking with an Orwellian Twist”
Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant recently reported on China’s plans for a wide-reaching “social credit system” rating citizens according to factors from work performance to criminal records and traffic...
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