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China's "Big Plans for Big Data"-
Topic Started: Nov 9 2015, 12:03 AM (88 Views)
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Yet another way China is infringing on its own citizens' right to privacy as well anyone who opposes the party:

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China's Big Plans for Big Data

Plus, China’s statistical tricks, the Ma-Xi meeting, and what China’s destroyer said to the USS Lassen. China links.

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By Shannon Tiezzi
November 07, 2015

What happens when an authoritarian regime taps into Big Data? In China, the answer is apparently a “social credit system” – a term referenced in the preliminary report on China’s 13th Five Year Plan. Writing for the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report, Chuin-Wei Yap and Gillian Wong look at what we know about China’s plans for Big Data. Details are vague, but officials apparently plan “a system that would evaluate the behavior of individuals and businesses by tapping on vast troves of personal digital data accumulated from its citizens’ online activity, such as purchases and other forms of digital presence, as well as data related to food-safety or pollution incidents for firms.”

In many ways, it looks like an update to the old dang’an system of simply keeping files on China’s citizens – but potentially with more detailed information than ever before, thanks to the wealth of information that is available by tracing electronic and online activities. Human rights activists are already up in arms that the Chinese government will use the social credit system to tighten control of its citizens; others argue that the system, as applied to businesses, could be an effective way to crack down on corruption, pollution, and food safety. “The outcome of Beijing’s massive social experiment could still range anywhere between mostly benign to highly intrusive,” Yap and Wong concluded – certainly something to keep an eye on.

Meanwhile, Quartz looks at the issues China has with the data it already collects: namely, how China massages and manipulates statistics on various economic indicators. It’s a detailed look at some of the “tricks” China uses to keep numbers from sparking alarm, either at home or abroad – and well worth a read, especially in light of the massive alterations China just made to its coal consumption stats.

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Edited by MSantor, Nov 9 2015, 12:03 AM.
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