China implemented its social credit system on a nationwide scale starting May 1. Social Credit, a harmless sounding phrase is the unholy marriage of big data with the proverbial ‘Big Brother’ under which, the state grades citizens as ‘trustworthy’ or not. Ostensibly the system is intended to address the trust deficit in the Chinese business […]
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Sonika Gupta is Associate Professor, China Studies Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The views expressed in her articles are strictly personal.