China bans people with social credit offences from travelling
The Chinese government banned millions of people from travelling in 2018 for 'social credit' misdeeds, including unpaid taxes and fines. China's National Public Credit Information Center annual report said would-be air travelers were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million times; o thers were barred 5.5 million times from buying train tickets. Beijing had announced in March 2018 it would introduce the travel ban two months later. Per Reuters , people would be put on the restricted lists if they had committed acts like spreading false information about terrorism, causing trouble on flights, using expired tickets or smoking on trains. The Social Credit System is based on the principle of 'once untrustworthy, always restricted'. Social credit system The Social Credit System ( Chinese : 社会信用体系; pinyin : shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì ) is a national credit rating and blacklist being developed by the government of China . Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Social Credit System 🔗 Operator: Government of China Developer: Government of China Country: China Sector: Govt - police; Govt - security Purpose: Assess creditworthiness, trustworthiness Technology: Deep learning; Neural network; Machine learni ng Issue: Ethics/values; Fairness
- Date it happened
- 2019-03-01
- Organisation involved
- Government of China
- Product, system or model
- Social Credit System
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