Sentences with phrase «rongcheng social credit»

«Even if you say, «No, I'm feeling fine,» you'll immediately give me a ton of social credit for recognizing and caring.»

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

The system will also be able to register how many times a pedestrian has violated traffic rules in the city and once this number reaches a certain level, it will affect the offender's social credit score which in turn may limit their ability to take out loans from banks, Wang said.

Whether or not an individual engages in environmentally sustainable behavior or criticizes the government can impact their score, along with their education level, purchase history and even the social credit scores of people with whom they associate, Wired reports.

While the latest technology doesn't immediately identify drivers, it most likely won't be long before the acoustic cameras include facial - recognition technology that links to so - called social credit scores, deducting points for repeated honking just as China plans to do for repeat jaywalkers.

The growth of China's surveillance technology comes as the state rolls out an enormous «social credit system» that ranks citizens based on their behaviour, and doles out rewards and punishments depending on their scores.

As Rongcheng shows, enforcing the law is a priority of the social credit system.

The system is the brainchild of city hall staff, says He Junning, the deputy director of the Rongcheng Social Credit Management Office.

However, the company is blending into the invisible web of China's upcoming social credit system.

The Peking University credit center started in the early 2000s with social credit projects for tourism agencies, the Ministry of Commerce, and academic researchers.

I've got a lot of social credit.

Yang, who asked that her real name not be used, says she sees no downsides to the social credit system and has no privacy - related concerns.

Companies are also included in the gauntlet of social credit.

The unified social credit system will rally all sectors of society against those deemed untrustworthy, says author Murong Xuecun, who has had run - ins with the Chinese government because of his writings.

There's no single institution in command of the social credit system.

The bureaucrat, wearing square glasses and a black checkered sweater, shares the social credit department with seven other employees on the second floor of the city hall.

In Rongcheng, at least, the social credit system has been embraced.

The social credit system provides incentives for people to not want to be on a blacklist.

But it has been hard to distinguish future promises — or threats — from the realities of how social credit is being implemented.

He hasn't given the social credit too much thought but says it might help improve people's behavior.

By 2020, the government has promised to roll out a national social credit system.

High - scoring residents are shown outside the public library and in residential communities and villages, which are already operating their own trial social credit systems.

In what it calls an attempt to promote «trustworthiness» in its economy and society, China is experimenting with a social credit system that mixes familiar Western - style credit scores with more expansive — and intrusive — measures.

The public blacklist has been incorporated by another incarnation of the social credit system — Zhima Credit, a service of the mobile payment provider Alipay.

Kinsella returned to B.C., where in 1986 he managed former Social Credit attorney general and Oak Bay mayor Brian Smith's losing bid to lead the Social Credit party.

Will McMartin, a long - time political consultant and commentator who has been affiliated with the Social Credit and BC Conservative parties, is a contributing editor at The Pacific Political Report.

Still, their systems and data would be key, analysts say, for China's ambitions to build a broader «social credit» system that would track people's financial activities, police records and other public behavior.

As described in this 2015 YouTube video (embedded below), a low social credit score is meant to isolate unruly citizens from the rest of the population and deny them access to state services and benefits via travel bans, increased prices for day - to - day products, higher bank interests, and others.

Now the system appears to include a wealth of additional rules that may land a user on the travel ban list, suggesting China is slowly building its social credit database to include more and more sources of unruly behavior.

In one case, a bicycle renting business announced it would deny service to people with a low social credit score.

This travel blocklist is part of China's growing «social credit» program that was first announced in 2012 under the name of Sesame Credit (now Social Credit System), developed under the tutelage of the Ant Financial Services Group (AFSG), an affiliate company of Alibaba.

In May 1983 British Columbians voted the Social Credit Party, headed by William BENNETT, into office.

Chinese authorities plan to use the country's mysterious «social credit» database to ban people guilty of past unruly behavior from purchasing plane and train tickets for up to a year.

This «social credit» database works by computing a «citizen score» for each Chinese person from 350 to 950 based on their activities, purchases, and online activity.

The election represented the tenth consecutive Progressive Conservative government in Alberta; the last time another party held power was in 1971, when the Social Credit Party was in government.

After the resignation of long - time Social Credit MLA Bob Clark, voters in the riding elected Gordon Kesler of the Western Canadian Concept.

During the 1997 election, both NDP leader Pam Barrett and Social Credit leader Randy Thorsteinson were allowed to participate in the leaders debate.

The digital identity extreme is being pushed by the Chinese government which is planning to introduce Social Credit System, which will rate the trustworthiness of its 1.3 Bn citizens on the basis of daily online activities, social media posts, and tax payments.

The Social Credit Party had not elected an MLA since the 1979 election.

(and later ran as a Social Credit candidate in Old - Didsbury - Three Hills in the 1997 election).

Does anybody recall how Albertans tossed out the Social Credit?

1937: The law was repealed by the Social Credit government after a group of disgruntled Albertans was thought to have collected enough signatures to recall Premier William Aberhart in his Okotoks - High River constituency.

1936: Bill No. 76 of 1936: A Bill Providing for the Recall of Members of the Legislative Assembly was introduced by the Social Credit government and passed after their surprising win in the 1935 election.

If you're ever interested in reading some old documents from the UFA and Social Credit governments, let me know.

Since the disappearance of the Social Credit Party in the 1970s, Alberta has seen its share of conservative fringe parties, usually based in central or southern rural Alberta — including the Western Canadian Concept, the Representative Party, a short - lived SocCred revival in the mid-1990s and the Alberta First Party.

Schools will no longer enroll students whose parents have bad social credit scores.»

Rod Sykes (Social Credit leader, 1980 to 1982): After serving two terms as the Mayor of Calgary (1969 - 1977), Mayor Sykes took over the leadership of the Social Credit Party.

Randy Thorsteinson (Social Credit leader, 1992 to 1999, Alberta Alliance leader, 2003 to 2005).

Maybe Alberta won't keep with tradition and relegate them to the trash heap of history as they did with the United Farmers party and the Social Credit.

August 22, 2015 marks eighty years since the Social Credit League formed government in Alberta.