
By means of the much-vaunted Social Credit System, the Chinese government seeks to motivate citizens to be more honest by using digital control and Big Data. Authors in Western countries, such as Kai Strittmatter and Shoshana Zuboff, label it a Surveillance State. What is the legal basis behind China’s Social Credit System?
In her Duet interview with Dr Thomas Pattloch, renowned legal expert for China, Dr Caldarola, author of the recent book Big Data and Law, discusses how China processes data and which data protection law regulates the data processing in question
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