{"id":32549,"date":"2019-02-19T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32549"},"modified":"2019-02-19T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:22:28","slug":"is-china-taking-social-monitoring-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32549","title":{"rendered":"Is China taking social monitoring too far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"81.3557800224\">\n<p>Millions of <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/china.html\">Chinese<\/a> people have been banned from travelling on planes and trains as the government expands its social credit programme that ranks people&#8217;s trustworthiness.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 17 million people with low scores were barred from buying plane tickets, and another five million were not allowed on high-speed trains.<\/p>\n<p>Four million companies have been blacklisted for &#8220;untrustworthy conduct&#8221; for a number of activities, including bidding on projects, taking part in land auctions and issuing corporate bonds.<\/p>\n<p>Is this ethical, and could it be taking surveillance too far?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hashem Ahelbarra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan Wang &#8211; China analyst, the Economist Intelligence Unit<\/p>\n<p>Zennon Kapron &#8211; CEO of KapronAsia, a market research and consulting firm that analyses technology trends in China<\/p>\n<p>Anna Bacciarelli &#8211; technology researcher and adviser at Amnesty International<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Chinese people have been banned from travelling on planes and trains as the government expands its social credit programme that ranks people&#8217;s trustworthiness. Last year, more than 17 million people with low scores were barred from buying plane tickets, and another five million were not allowed on high-speed trains. Four million companies have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}