Are Friends Electric? - Adam Greenfield - Sincerity Systems

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Adam Greenfield

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A financial app showing a user's Zhima, or Sesame Credit score: 773 out of 800. Source: ABC/Foreign Correspondent/Brant Cumming.

Are Friends Electric?
October 2019










Notes
1

Jürgen Grote and Matteo Bonomi, “Making and breaking social capital: The paradox of China’s social credit system,” Dialogue of Civilizations, May 28, 2018, .

2

“Up to one million detained in China’s mass ‘re-education’ drive,” Amnesty International, September 2018, .

3

“Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020),” China Copyright and Media, April 25, 2015, .

4

Lily Kuo, “China bans 23m from buying travel tickets as part of ‘social credit’ system,” The Guardian, March 1, 2019, .

5

Adam Jourdan and John Ruwitch, “Alibaba’s Jack Ma is a Communist Party member, China state paper reveals,” Reuters, November 27, 2018, .

6

Grote and Bonomi, “Making and breaking social capital.”

7

Maya Wang, “China’s Chilling ‘Social Credit’ Blacklist,” Human Rights Watch, December 12, 2017, .

8

Josh Chin, “Chinese Police Add Facial-Recognition Glasses to Surveillance Arsenal,” Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2018, ; Nick Statt, “China is fighting toilet paper thieves with facial recognition software,” The Verge, March 20, 2017, .

9

Rachel Williams, “Council plans ‘big society’ reward points,” The Guardian, October 31, 2010, .

10

Kara Brown, “‘I Can’t Get Over How Bad It Was’: A Lisa Vanderpump Restaurant Crawl,” Jezebel, Sepetember 3, 2015, .