Sesame Credit

Sesame Credit is a social credit scoring system being developed by Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of the Chinese Alibaba Group and associate of the Chinese government. It uses data from Alibaba's services to compile its score, which include two services that have been described as the equivalents of Twitter and Facebook in China and another service that has been described as the equivalent of Amazon and eBay.[1][2][3] The score is used to rank citizens of China based on a variety of factors like loyalty to the Chinese government and loyalty to Chinese brands based on social media interactions and online purchases. The rewards of having a high score include easier access to loans, easier access to jobs and priority during bureaucratic paperwork. Likewise, the immediate negative consequences for a low score, or being associated to someone with a low score, range from lower internet speeds to being denied access to job offers, loans and bureaucratic paperwork.[4][5][6] The system has been labeled a mass surveillance tool and mass disciplinary machine by organizations specialized in human rights.[7][8]

Baihe.com, a Chinese matchmaking company, uses Sesame Credit data as part of its service.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Shu, Catherine. "Data From Alibaba’s E-Commerce Sites Is Now Powering A Credit-Scoring Service". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  2. 1 2 Hatton, Celia. "China 'social credit': Beijing sets up huge system". BBC News. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  3. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-surveillance-big-data-score-censorship-a7375221.html
  4. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-08-13/china-s-lenders-want-to-check-your-social-media
  5. ↑ https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/12/21/chinas-social-credit-system-turning-big-data-into-mass-surveillance/
  6. ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-score-like-black-mirror-2016-10
  7. ↑ http://www.visiontimes.com/2015/12/23/the-social-credit-system-in-china-is-another-way-to-control-its-citizens.html
  8. ↑ https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans
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