Social Credit in China - OMG

[Anonymous]

What may sound like a dystopian vision of the future is already happening in China. And it’s making and breaking lives. The Communist Party calls it “social credit” and says it will be fully operational by 2020. Within years, an official Party outline claims, it will “allow the trustworthy to roam freely under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step”.

Social credit is like a personal scorecard for each of China’s 1.4 billion citizens.

In one pilot program already in place, each citizen has been assigned a score out of 800. In other programs it’s 900.

Read more here.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

What may sound like a dystopian vision of the future is already happening in China. And it’s making and breaking lives. The Communist Party calls it “social credit” and says it will be fully operational by 2020. Within years, an official Party outline claims, it will “allow the trustworthy to roam freely under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step”.

Social credit is like a personal scorecard for each of China’s 1.4 billion citizens.

In one pilot program already in place, each citizen has been assigned a score out of 800. In other programs it’s 900.

Read more here.

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Big data is changing the world. Sometimes for good, other times for bad.

The problem here is that you're not just getting cut off from, say, your Chase cards. You're losing your rights, and the algorithms are completely arbitrary. One of the more alarming things in the article is that your score is affected by your peers' score as well. If Nazi Germany had a system like this, WWII may have had a very different outcome.

[Anonymous]

@GrasshopperStudent

I wholeheartedly agree.

[Anonymous]

This is interesting...  Frightening and alarming....  But very interesting to know that this happening over there.

It's a matter of time before a world "Social Credit" system is developed, though.  That's the sad but unavoidable outcome from I can see.

What's other people's thought on this?

[Anonymous]

This is scary as <bleep>! There honestly isn't much more to say about it. This is just plain scary...

[marty56]

I see several applications for this in the dating world and in hiring people.

[Anonymous]

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@marty56 wrote:

I see several applications for this in the dating world and in hiring people.

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Invasion of privacy aside, good and bad are much more subjective in a social scope rather than just credit. If I go 90 day late on all my accounts, that's objectively bad. One can't argue with that lowering their score The social credit in China may include religion and politics in their score, as well as information on with whom you associate. That's all subjective and debatable.