Context: China’s Social Credit System (SCS) is a broad set of government and commercial initiatives using data, algorithms, and surveillance technology to monitor, evaluate, and reward or punish the behaviour of individuals, businesses, and government officials, aiming to create a society of trustworthy actors that comply with laws, contracts, and social norms. The SCS is widely misrepresented in Western media as a single unified system assigning numerical scores to all citizens; in reality it is a fragmented set of overlapping systems with different mechanisms for different populations, i
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