Photo: Mr Maduro has pushed the card with prizes and discounts. (Reuters: Miraflores Palace)
ABC News Online: Chinese telecom giant ZTE 'helped Venezuela develop social credit system'
Chinese telecom giant ZTE assisted Venezuela in the development of a new smart card as part of a program similar to China's controversial social credit system, according to a Reuters report.
Venezuela's new smart card — known as the "fatherland card" — collects a range of information about cardholders and stores it in a state database, which the Government claims will help them provide better services to citizens.
The database, according to employees of the card system and screenshots of user data reviewed by Reuters, stores a range of details including medical history, presence on social media, membership of a political party and whether a person voted.
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WNU Editor: These cards are used to reward and punish citizen behavior in China. If this is the same system that the Chinese are introducing in Venezuela, I expect the same outcome where opponents of the Maduro regime will be denied government services, housing, and food handouts.
More News On Venezuela Introducing The 'Fatherland Card'
Venezuela is rolling out a new ID card manufactured in China that can track, reward, and punish citizens -- Reuters
Special Report: How ZTE helped Venezuela create China-style social control -- IT News
China-style social credit system comes to Venezuela with 'Homeland Cards' -- Taiwan News
Venezuela Shows Us How China Is Starting to Export Its Authoritarian Surveillance Tech -- Slate
5 comments:
Hahahahaha!!! The people are ALREADY being denied those services. Maduro needs to GO
Why is China not learning? I clearly remember the narrative that the Chinese are so smart. CNN told me that for 20 years and that the Chinese century is unstoppable (much as they always talk up the superiority of Putin, the 5D chess player that makes Trump look so stupid).. anyways, the world and free people clearly rejects this idea of a totalitarian government. Sure, short term it will help them in strengthening ties (and grasp) on some countries like Venezueala, but long term, their "brand" (as Trump would call it) - i.e. the brand of China - suffers greatly from this. I don't even go there for holidays anymore, it is such a terrible place now. (And it really doesn't have to, Shanghai is a great place to visit, but not with that much surveillance and just outright evil, in complete clash with everything we stand for, I cannot even tolerate spending $500 there on a night out anymore. Why should I, if Vietnam, Singapore or Thailand are so much nicer places, and so much more welcoming and more open that China.. and yes, that tells you a lot, if China is on the far,far extreme end now, together with Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and Russia - it's not a good place to be. I hold multiple Ivy League degrees and I for one am certainly among a larger growing community that doesn't even want to go there anymore, it's such a terrible place.. and Chinese - they still want to live in the West, so the brain drain will not be reversed by this either.. capital is leaving too.. the economy is going further down and China managed to isolate itself pretty much on the world stage, with almost all SE-Asian and E-Asian nations firmly opposed to China)... so again, I ask: Why are the Chinese not learning?
Wow! What arrogance, where is the MSM!?!?
Maduro does not get out much it seems.
Has the fool watched 1984.
Neither he nor Xi are original.
Look at that hat.
How folksy. Just one of the guys. Only I weigh a lot more than you now but we won't talk about that will we amigos and amigas. Especially if you have The Card.
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