Uploaded: 04 Jun 2019 (7 years ago) · Shared: 13 Sep 2020
Duration: 8:07
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In this compelling NBC News report, journalist Janis Mackey Frayer travels deep inside China to examine the rapid implementation of facial recognition scanners and the country's sprawling social credit system. As state surveillance monitors daily movements and community behavior, the documentary uncovers pressing ethical questions surrounding modern technology, individual freedom, and state power. This groundbreaking coverage challenges viewers to contemplate how digital control impacts human dignity and moral autonomy on a global scale.
For faith-based communities, including followers of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, the report serves as a powerful spiritual reminder of the value of personal agency, trust, and divine accountability over government oversight. By contrasting automated societal tracking with classical ethical principles found in the Quran, Bible, and Torah, this segment prompts vital discussions across every church, synagogue, and mosque. Explore how advanced algorithms are shaping societal values and what this futuristic vision of governance means for the future of religious freedom and global human rights.
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What is Social Credit?The Social Credit System is a national reputation system being developed by the Chinese government. By 2020, it is intended to standardise the assessment of citizens' and businesses' economic and social reputation, or 'Social Credit'. The system will be one unified system and there will be a single system-wide social credit score for each citizen and business. The system is considered as a form of mass surveillance which uses big data analysis technology. Critics will point to similar 'surveillance' systems already in operation in western countries.
Who are NBC News?NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's various operations report to the president of NBC News, Noah Oppenheim. The NBCUniversal News Group also comprises MSNBC, the network's 24-hour general news channel, business and consumer news channels CNBC and CNBC World, the Spanish language Noticias Telemundo and United Kingdom-based Sky News. NBC News aired the first, regularly scheduled news program in American broadcast television history on February 21, 1940. The group's broadcasts are produced and aired from 30 Rockefeller Center, NBC's headquarters in New York City.
What is China?China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.4 billion in 2019. Covering approximately 9.6 million square kilometres, it is the world's third or fourth-largest country by area. Governed solely by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. China is a unitary one-party socialist republic, and is one of the few existing nominally socialist states. Political dissidents and human rights groups have denounced and criticized the Chinese government for human rights abuses, including suppression of religious and ethnic minorities, censorship, mass surveillance, and their response to protests, notably in 1989.
