plus points for the planting of trees, to negative points for fights, debts, or black: The planned social credit system in China is to assign to each citizen, company and every authority is a points account. Plus points for desired behaviour, minus points to the contrary. After a few test runs, the System is to be introduced in 2020 in the whole of China.
Now a further component of this system has become known. In the province of Hebei, which is also the capital of Beijing is located, is currently being tested is a program that shows a map of where in the radius of 500 meters, people with debts. The China Daily, an English-language newspaper, which is owned by the state reported. This card is integrated into the Wechat App, the popular Messaging App in China. The country’s popular counterpart, Whatsapp is blocked in China since 2017.
black list
The program is called “map of the deadbeat debtor” (“Map of Deadbeat Debtor”) and was developed by the province’s court of Hebei. The debtor, whether private individuals or businesses, are fed from a black list of the local government. Together, they have, that they have not met their financial obligations, writes the China-focused tech blog Technode.
Wechat users are now asked to report to the government debtor, which could service their debts. What exactly could be the indication remains unclear. Reports in the media that the user could, for example, observe whether an indebted Person visits an expensive Restaurant. This is to show that the Person can pay their debts actually would have, but this does not.
Name, ID, and address
The user can click in a row on the name of the debtor on the map and to the court information to this Person. If you click on your Person, be given, according to the Australian news site ABC Name, ID number, and parts of your address. In addition, Details will be shown why they are on the black list, and information to the court to decide the ask you to settle your debts.
The cards to the Wechat App is ABC, according to red, if particularly many debtors are around you, orange, if there are less, and blue, if there are only a small number of.
photos of Schuldern published
as early as 2017, the Chinese city of Wenzhou social media was used to provide debtor in the pillory, and to get them to repay their debts. Citizens who have not paid their debt back, were punished by the amount of your debt to all your Wechat has been sent to contacts.
Further, a court released the names and photos of 20 local debtors who owed a total of 10.7 million Yuan (about 1.58 million Swiss francs), which, like the Reuters news Agency reported.
China has been trying for some time to provide more loans to individuals to boost consumer spending. At the same time the country struggles with a rising household debt. This has doubled to Reuters, in the last decade. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 25.01.2019, 18:18 PM
