Alibaba’s Sesame China’s All-in-One Credit Rating System

Alibaba’s Sesame Credit which launched in 2015 is one of the highest profile Social Credit Systems in China.  In part this is because it gathers a lot of data from Alibaba Cloud services (the same thing as essentially what Facebook, Google and other US companies do).  However, in China the process is more formal and complex as it isn’t just for spying and marketing purposes.

It is a system that essentially rates your associates, activities, lifestyle and not just your financial credit alone.  So it is both a pro and con in some cases that these aspects are used, but it all depends on your lifestyle.

I find it highly controversial and it all really depends on how fair will the system be and is it more fair than the traditional model?

With ICOs like Bloom I wonder how it will fare and compare?

Areeb Soo Yasir

Business and technology have always gone hand in hand for me, and now I've built nearly 20 years of expertise. A few notable achievements: -> Tier III-Designed & deployed multiple mission critical datacenter environments in Canada, US, Hong Kong, Singapore & China. -> Software Engineering: Created a Linux OS from scratch, including a custom kernel to maintain millions of dollars in client infrastructure, deploy and report as needed. Created the “Windows Geeks” and “Password Pros” Windows Password Reset software recommended by Microsoft. -> Business Negotiations: Conducted intensive negotiations with branches of the Peoples Republic of China and the various state-run Telecom operations including China Telecom and China Unicom for access to their trillion dollar backbone infrastructure. We were the first western company to have such network access where other IT companies such as Vodafone and Google failed. -> Cloud Infrastructure Creation: Created the first proprietary “Clustered Cloud Architecture” that rivals competing Google, IBM, Microsoft & Alibaba alternatives. I'd love to chat #IT or #Linux or even #Business, so don't hesitate to connect. Cheers!

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