Just last year in 2017, headlines read: “Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens”. Which apparently is about the Chinese government’s plans to launch a Social Credit system by 2020 which would judge the trustworthiness of its 1.3 billion residents. The system itself would be heavily based on technology and reliable internet infrastructure. “People with low ratings will have slower internet speeds; restricted access to restaurants and the removal of the right to travel”, says Rachel Botsman, author of ‘Who […]