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ai will experts be able to agree on technical guidelines or will this technology create deadly new autonomous weapon systems. such as robot collapse starts aug 14th on t.w. . china has long been a surveillance tax now big brother needs to be jostled. in trials across the country cameras and spine where watching mapping your digital footprints to every step you take. what you do say and even
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think is being monitored and mocked against your. party calls and social credits personal school cause 1400000000 citizens rewards for good behavior and punishments for bad it's all fully operational yes but this report will show you a vision of china's dystopian future of the world's 1st digital dictatorship. place. china's cities are already flush with cameras around 200000000 of them.
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what's changing is they getting smarter. are illegally crossing this road stand back are legally crossing this road to stand back. china is positioning itself to lead the world in artificial intelligence. surveillance technology is a key proving ground. facial recognition body scanning and geo tracking matched with your personal data and online behavior will power the social credit system leaving no dark corner to hide in. the world intelligence congress and tangy big brother's new toys are on shot.
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several of the exhibitors here including tech giant ali baba and now working with the state to write the algorithms that will calculate your social credit school they've already got the know how and they use a dollar from their financial credit system alli passé manager of alli petain jing is chong. here you know you talk to mike you once a person has a school all their credit behavior in life is recorded and can be evaluated by that number if you are goal is to ensure that if people keep their promises they can go anywhere in the world and if they break their promises they won't be able to move in which. sounds dramatic but it's the party line. pilot programs for a national social credit system are already on the way by 2020 the official
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outlined boasts it will allow the. asked would be to run freely under heaven making it hard for the discredited to take a single step. but you know coordinate that china can make such great achievements very quickly which i'm very proud of it. a while here. so that your development of big data and other digital technology is that it's getting more and more convenient to live in china house in the us i'd almost forgotten her from going to.
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san dan dan isn't going to places very much the modern chinese woman. she's a marketing professional diligent and prosperous and sees clear skies in her digital future. don't presume to tell the government already knows a lot about our personal information over the washer force so i think if this system can integrate take data out all the information together it will be more efficient. a model citizen done general rights highly on social credit. that are every action will be tracked and judged is fine by her. her unknown whether or not our income although i think people in every country want a safe and stable society. if as our government says for the cameras are installed on every corner of public space i will feel safer and goes out on the hunters or to
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the over a choke line change him. dan dan's criminal academic and medical records will fade into her school as well as state security assessments. the shopping habits will be another measure. this school could even change in real time depending on what she puts in a trolley. buy a lot of alcohol suggest dependence lose a couple of points. buy a pack of nappies again if you suggest responsibility. light on mortgage payments or your tax return lose a lot more. not that dan dan would risk that she keeps a close saw on her financial writing viral mobile payment app so this is sesame
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credit so what's the score that you have to set this aside history 773 so what's the maximum you can get i think is a 100 feet got a pretty good score oh i am i think of doing while i'm not the best but yes it's our own top 7 simple answer is what kind of access or what kind of privileges does that give you this is for like for rent cards i don't have to pay a deposit so you don't have $5000.00 you know and this is also for a hotel. deposit whole renting. china's middle class is on the rise. like jan jan they're mostly young urban used to living much of their lives online and on devices.
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yeah let's at each other i can show you how to use only pay and you can start and force me out what is it. it's only buffer utility payments it also records your stamps as you walk and you can click and check on your friends all the little person you know you also share the out with you if you join both of us get a coupon 000-000-0000 extension 00. so you would you are always good for me the social credit system isn't a totally new thing and make it's always been there now it's just in a more efficient format an online or digital format or a session of congress or a church of god so you wonder what it's based on the system we already have. to. anything. to you giants and ultimately pot them with will
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also effect your social credit. tendon married for love but she also chose the right husband john shouting school is likely to be even higher than her shouting is a civil servant with the justice department a loyal car driver of the party why don't want to tell them what they are. we need a social credit system in china we hope we can help each other love each other and help everyone become prosperous as president she said will be rich democratic cultural harmonious and beautiful sound she will sing us will only go one and go she's hoping for the country's future and it's also the hope of the whole chinese nation that she walk funny as a woman trend towards a new machine. inclined
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to listen to one of the you can see from the chinese people's mental state their eyes are blinded and their ears are blocked with what are sometimes going on rasha they know little about the world and live in an illusion and in a few hundreds in the 20. first. i've come to chongqing city a high tech metropolis in central china where the jailing river meets the yangtze i'm here to meet one of the 10000000 people who've seen the dark side of the source . the credit system investigative journalist leo who. with his street smart hands on approach who has exposed high level corruption and solved murder
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cases abandoned by the police in many countries he'd be celebrated not in china when for her turn from all the time the government regards me as an enemy on the mainstream media is like a propaganda machine for the party. on their main duty is to indoctrinate people and keep them from knowing the facts. in my view if someone wants to prevent corruption being revealed then they're corrupt too and could have actually one. in 2015 who lost a defamation case after you cues to an official of extortion he was made to publish an apology and pay a fine but when the court demanded an additional fee who refused then and 2017 he found himself suddenly locked out of society under a pile of social credit scheme he'd been blacklisted as dishonest when
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i have friends who are lawyers and judges they told me that the so-called dishonest personnel are people in debt and i don't owe any money so i shouldn't be on the blacklist. what opponent who had found him in that who maintains he has fully met the terms of use 2015 case he believes he's blacklisting is political but he has no way of challenging it. there are a lot of people who are on the blacklist wrongly and troll with the anonymous but they can't get off it. how many are bad. these poor social credit rating has shot down these travel options and confined him to effective house arrest in chiang chain. right now my ability to travel is limited to encounter i can't book high speed trains or flights or i'll show you when we don't
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think we'll use this app to book tickets you say from charging to see on the. $200.00 let's try to book a ticket for the next few days how. are you going to go and what does it say how you change it it says an email to make a booking for where you can be my access to high speed rail is legally restricted to our teens and home in church. whose social media accounts have also been closed before his arrest he had nearly 2000000 followers it's where he published much of his journalism or had more than 10 wave or accounts now they're all gullible how to handle me this is the newest one very good thing as it got blocked recently to stick to hashmi or. to scribe spike writing for an online publication he's investigative reports are on hold. it's
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not his 1st run in with censorship in august 23rd saying he was detained without trial after exposing a senior party members links with a legal prostitution this is a ray creation based on whose accounts it us where your behavior is defamation do you admit it. and. if you admit guilt the leader will be happy and set you free. over the course of a year he was interrogated more than 70 times. now compare what they threaten me saying that i must cooperate on the internet if i didn't i'd lose my job and even my wife and children in law and impala. who refused to confess and was eventually released. now he's trapped again the 4 walls of
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a cell replaced by social credits dragnet. pulling their attention it's been 5 years since i was released. they are big changes have taken place in the media industry and i'm think higher because. the record went out to a lot of people have left the industry especially journalists doing investigative reports on data to think about i still love this work and i want to continue to be a journalist here of course and i want to keep on reporting as much as possible. and i want to have whom. i'm going to a place where the principles of social credits have been taken to brutally extremes the party doesn't want the world to know about its reporting on the situation is risky. to get there we must fly 4000 kilometers from beijing to the
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western edge of china. jack nation's largest province and according to some the world's largest open prison. in junk is the homeland of the week is turkey people obviously fight. china's rulers have struggled to control the region and its people but 2 millenia. surveillance technology is the new weapon in their campaign. ah ah ah. pool systems. the surveillance system has suddenly ramped up after the end of 2060. since then advanced surveillance technology which we've never seen or experienced or heard of started to appear as
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our system of. tot he hama it is a way get a filmmaker and poet from the shin jang city of cash cow. you can talk about the situation there because he managed to escape with his family to the u.s. where they've applied for political asylum. he made the decision to flee last year . we got a phone call from the police station instructing us to come by. but we were taken to the basement. so i spoke about there were manacles and shackles hanging in the cells and iron chairs call the tiger chairs criminals are strapped in mind. so look. we went inside and there were about 20 to 30 people there but we were all weaker. and. could look at the concussion you don't get to because you don't what i don't buy and this will look like but in japan and. when it was our turn they drew
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blood from my wife and me congo next they took our voice samples. of our fingerprints were taken. and. you have to manage the fingerprinting they began their facial analysis. could inject them into a business they started recording and we look straight at the camera. but i missed that part of the pin wheel up to the right on the can and bending. over 1st and then. come back again i look down. ready here and he's wife were being scanned by facial recognition software and their faces match from all angles to enhance accuracy they were even forced to produce a range of facial expression. where you would
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have this controlling surveillance system specifically targeting wiggers. but to. buy that reason is people like us count as one of the minorities in china and ethnic culture is always the 1st target for political oppression. but in jordan the channeled. inside cash it's almost impossible to report independently government officials do their best to conceal any sign of the oppression he describes look closer and the cracks appear the party approved vision of the city is a facade cashcard historic old town has been demolished in just one section rebuilt as a sort of we get theme park the chinese tourists. you
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can buy souvenirs try the local cuisine. and even see you sean. and let's do. a thing. at. the same time i guess but there's tension in the year. the michaels can speak with us. armed guards and cameras keep a watchful eye and chinese flags climb the rooftops even the dime of the mosque. so it's quite difficult to film here we've got about 6 mind is with this the whole time of it telling us what we can fill the time to sometimes they delayed now material on top of that we've got about another 8 to 10 security further restrict that's what i can tell you from the car they're set up in
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a kind of grid like management system in a very 100 meters or so you see a police station and they aided with the normas amounts of c.c.t.v. cameras with facial recognition to really have a total control busy here. what is clearly said there is quite a brutal repressive crackdown going on here and technology is at the center of it. she jiang strike on social credit is simple and ruthless. citizens here and not given a school stage they're divided into just 3 categories trustworthy average untrustworthy. if you're han chinese you're doing trustworthy and granted freedom of movement. but if you we got your average with restrictions imposed on travel and religious practices if you're a weak a mile who breaks those restrictions you'll marked as untrustworthy and
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detained in what the party calls education and training centers. tot he how much he has another name for them. i show you what it's like much of their night at . the concentration camps are very congested and overpopulated with detainees. they have to study political propaganda 12 hours a day. on sheer traumas food and drinking water and living conditions are very poor like a little. many people are getting sick in the camps. when we were still living back home we started to hear that some people were even dying there. in august this year the un and students incredible reports there over a 1000000 we give a currently held without charging camps in shin jan purely because of their
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ethnicity the chinese government rejects the klein insisting it's only detains convicted terrorists tardy is personal experience tells a different story when she and john authorities discovered he fled to america his brother and 2 brothers in law disappeared. going to mass and it's impossible to communicate with them. there in the concentration cause. you're in contact with their families their wives is impossible no. one can imagine we can tell him i'm sure we can you can just kill but if we do the police will know immediately and then on the others will be taken to the camps as well other than. and there was talk. back in chong ching journalist leo who worries for his family to his blacklisting
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on social credit has cast a shadow on those closest to him. shot hsien who is an old journalist calling. for units of them watching it's a lot i meet him i'm not on the black place yet if i do end up on it seems it would be like the system of collective punishment in feudal times where if one person breaks the law all associated people are also punished if that happens it's not social credit it's political extremism to convince someone. like tara who is risking the welfare of his friends and family to alert the world to china's experiment in high tech social engineering he says people don't fully comprehend what's to come a digital totalitarian state where algorithms decide your fate and nothing can be
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questioned whether. or not i think it's wrong that our this kind of social control goes against the tide of the world. we always say we should learn from the good aspects of western countries. but when it comes to limiting the government's power we don't learn anything too frequently nationally that on your shoulders it's an. it and if you don't wash them call for a ball that you call china has the largest population in the world where this is very different from western countries from 0. point 00 can have all happiest thing for me is to see my children live a happy and healthy life can hold so i hope my son can do what he wants to and gets a good education and lives
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a harmonious life. to me that's the most important thing to watch out or is it all . friend dan dan and husbands shall jinx high social credits and give their son ribeiro a running start the provisions in protections of the party will be bestowed upon him so long as mom and dad keep the credits up there i always have a pad so if you're going to sure hold on to the bush although the new system isn't perfect china likes to experiment in this creative way trying continuously make improvements holds up to suit our society lunch about how difficult how. i see a positive future for and i hope that this new system will bring good things to the chinese people that shortly.
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this is deja vu news live from berlin a big day for britain and its incoming prime minister after being elected leader of the conservative party by a large majority boris johnson will be invited by the queen to form a new government as prime minister today also coming out. in washington the former special counsel robert muller prepares to give 5 hours of testimony before a congressional committees but will he go beyond the already known public findings of his prussia trumped report.
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