China is the most populous country in the world . As part of its effort to keep its 1.4 billion citizens in check, the Chinese government has developed a new “moral” system that ranks its citizens as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ based on their behaviors and public conduct. Known as the “social credit system,” the system is meant to standardize the assessment of Chinese citizens’ and businesses’ economic and social reputation, or ‘social credit.’ Thanks to the technology developed by the Chinese AI facial recognition startup SenseTime, millions of Chinese citizens’ faces are tracked, scanned on a daily basis, and their...