Social Credit
The Warring States of China’s Emerging Data Empire
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China’s Social Credit System has fundamentally re-shaped of surveillance worldwide, with discussions of it making it into hundreds of media headlines and all the way into European Union legislation and the United Nations.
'Social Credit' offers one of the first comprehensive assessments of this infamous system. It is aimed at the many experts and professionals – both scholarly and more broadly – that have to deal with its fallout on a regular basis. In a concise format, it covers the questions that have garnered the most attention worldwide: from social credit scoring and blacklists to its history and theoretical foundation.
Throughout, its core thesis is that more often than not, even China’s government is at a loss what to do with this messy and complex initiative. This has caused fragmented and low-tech implementation, but where insufficient legal safeguards can have far-reaching implications for the normal market order and for human rights.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Wrapped tableware, train announcements, and shared bikes
Getting social credit right is key to understanding 21st-century surveillance
Making sense of social credit
Outline of the book
Chapter 2. The Social Credit System’s emergence and global roots
The emergence of the Social Credit System
The trifecta of “credit” problems
How the “West” inspired China’s Social Credit System
A warning-sign for China
Where the SCS deviates from established credit systems
Chapter 3. The Policy Umbrella of Social Credit
Confused
Systems-engineering China
Social credit as a mechanism
Merging finance, market regulation, and “morality”
Trust everywhere, in everyone, and everything
The relationship between the market and government under the SCS
It’s messy
Chapter 4. Limitless Expansion, Fragmented Development: A Policy History of the Social Credit System (2002-2020)
Setting sail
Experimentation turns into disorientation
Enter phase two: the Planning Outline kicks development into fifth gear
From the planning outline to local implementation
Fragmentation
Glorified spreadsheets as digitisation
Creating space for abuse
Ambition meets bureaucratic reality
Chapter 5: No Credit for Culprits
Untrustworthy
A web of blacklists
Humans pushing buttons
Naming and shaming
Seeing red
Who are the culprits?
European firms are the gold standard of credit
Repairing one’s credit
Evaluating success and concerns: not black and white red
Chapter 6. One Step Back to Put More Forward: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath
Viral issues
Flexible yet legally ambiguous
The central government pulls in the reins
Less is more
The next step forward: credit risk classification and management
Chapter 7. Mythbusters: anatomy of social credit scoring
1984 or 2020?
The emergence of the myth
Social credit scoring in practice – more myth than reality
Xi would not care for a social credit score
Non-credit scoring in China
Building a good policy response to the Social Credit System
Social credit as a mirror
Chapter 8. The future of the Social Credit System
A strange law
Future priorities
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
