Surveillance cameras in front of the giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in September 2009. China is increasingly monitoring on citizens' behavior. Jason Lee/Reuters
Business Insider: China reportedly monitors what civil servants do outside work as the country rolls out its ambitious social credit system
* Some local authorities around China are monitoring government employees' behavior outside work hours, Bloomberg reported.
* At least three cities have started assessing public servants' activities outside of work to determine whether they get promoted, Bloomberg said.
* This new form of scrutiny comes as China rolls out its ambitious social credit system, which aims to track, reward, and punish citizens' behavior.
* China's Communist Party has also been cracking down on its members to ensure loyalty to the party and its leader, President Xi Jinping.
Local authorities around China have started monitoring civil servants' behavior outside of work hours, Bloomberg reported, as it sets up its ambitious surveillance state over citizens, bureaucrats, and Communist Party members.
At least three cities in China have rolled out various measures to track public servants' loyalty and behavior in their personal lives over the past year, Bloomberg reported.
They include assessing employees' behavior at work, at home, and in public to determine performance reviews and promotions, Bloomberg said. The specific kinds of behavior that would help or jeopardize a public servant's performance are not clear.
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WNU Editor: China is the world's leader in developing and deploying facial and behavioural recognition software. I have see it work, and it is truly unsettling. Think of George Orwell's 1984, but backed with sophisticated and modern technology. China's goal is to implement this program nationwide in 2020.
