Here’s How China’s ‘Social Credit Score’ Punish And Reward Citizens, And It Sounds Like Dystopian Fiction
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Dystopian future is here, and there’s literally no escape from it. While European countries fight for the safety of personal data on the Internet, China has adopted a Big Brother-style country-wide people tracking system. And we don’t mean the simple surveillance cameras as the Chinese took it to a whole another level with facial recognition and gait tracking so smart that you would never be able to cheat on.
Well, the tracking part might be counted as a security measure, but where the facial recognition software data is actually used is absolutely mind-blowing. The government records your credit history, fulfillment capacity, identity characteristics, social relationships, behavior and preferences, and based on your choices they will give you a social score from 350 to 950. If you fall into the ‘good citizen’ category with a score of more than 700, you’ll get better loan rates, you can skip queues, rent things without a deposit and even get better matches on dating sites. If you fall into the ‘bad’ category with lower scores you may be restricted from well-paying jobs, your kids will not be able to go to a good school and not only you’ll be banned from buying domestic flight tickets but also leaving the country. If that isn’t scary, we don’t know what is.
If you’ve read the dystopian fiction masterpiece by George Orwell called 1984, the eerie similarities will give you goose-bumps and probably some sleepless nights.
The future is now.
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Whats really worrying is that I think we're too distracted to do anything about it, that's what makes it so insidious, we're mollified by the idea that the technological age has connected us more, given us more choice when in fact its just the carrot before we get the stick. Another brick in the wall
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Fight back, demand laws that protect our privacy!
And meanwhile people keep giving personal information to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and all the other social media. Linking this information to surveillance footage is easy, so it won't be long before someone is arrested because he was identified by his Facebook account.
It's already happened. There have been articles on here about a drug dealer whose fingerprints were taken from a picture he uploaded to a social media site, and the hit and run driver that was found when sheriff's took to social media to identify a random piece of car that was left behind.
Well said
And there are still people saying "So what, I have nothing to hide...take my data!"
This needs to be at the top
Thank you :-)
You may not have nothing to hide. But do you want to get fired because one of your friends HAS something to hide? I don't think so. On the other hand if it would be used by people with high moral credit (unlikely if not impossible) and it would be protected against attacks from outside (good joke, right?) it would be awesome weapon for police. Hmm, I don't know if I would like to live in world like this. No crime (ok, nearly no crime) but no freedom and most probably no hope for change in future. Nah, I love changes too much, burn this.
I hope it doesn't spread. I'm already scared.
I first read about it yesterday and have had such a feeling of foreboding since
how many points do you have on boredpanda, how many likes do you get on fb and ask yourself seriously if these points nd likes that you get make you feel better or worse if its minus points or 0 likes in any way, if not ok, if they do affect your feelings then your mind is already livin in a prestate of this chinese reality
Whats really worrying is that I think we're too distracted to do anything about it, that's what makes it so insidious, we're mollified by the idea that the technological age has connected us more, given us more choice when in fact its just the carrot before we get the stick. Another brick in the wall
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Fight back, demand laws that protect our privacy!
And meanwhile people keep giving personal information to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and all the other social media. Linking this information to surveillance footage is easy, so it won't be long before someone is arrested because he was identified by his Facebook account.
It's already happened. There have been articles on here about a drug dealer whose fingerprints were taken from a picture he uploaded to a social media site, and the hit and run driver that was found when sheriff's took to social media to identify a random piece of car that was left behind.
Well said
And there are still people saying "So what, I have nothing to hide...take my data!"
This needs to be at the top
Thank you :-)
You may not have nothing to hide. But do you want to get fired because one of your friends HAS something to hide? I don't think so. On the other hand if it would be used by people with high moral credit (unlikely if not impossible) and it would be protected against attacks from outside (good joke, right?) it would be awesome weapon for police. Hmm, I don't know if I would like to live in world like this. No crime (ok, nearly no crime) but no freedom and most probably no hope for change in future. Nah, I love changes too much, burn this.
I hope it doesn't spread. I'm already scared.
I first read about it yesterday and have had such a feeling of foreboding since
how many points do you have on boredpanda, how many likes do you get on fb and ask yourself seriously if these points nd likes that you get make you feel better or worse if its minus points or 0 likes in any way, if not ok, if they do affect your feelings then your mind is already livin in a prestate of this chinese reality