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of course, "social credit systems" to rate citizens are already being tested in China: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21711902-worrying-implications-its

• aerique 9y ago
  Everyone is generally playing catch up with China in these matters so I expect this will show up all over the world in five to ten years as well. And with "show up" I mean as blatantly as in China. I'm actually fully expecting these things to happen below the water already.
• wu-ikkyu 9y ago
  >It is planning what it calls a “social-credit system”. This aims to score not only the financial creditworthiness of citizens, as happens everywhere, but also their social and possibly political behaviour. This already exists across the world in the form of credit rating agencies and social media. It's merely an issue of data integration
  • elefanten 9y ago
    Except its: 1. Centrally regulated and collected 2. Mandatory 3. Explicitly includes matters of ideology and opinion So, it's hardly comparable to what is extant under the surface in other countries.
    • wu-ikkyu 9y ago
      1. So is Facebook and the credit rating agencies in the US 2. No it's not, it was unsuccessfully tested in a single county 3. So do the judgments of employers on whether or not to hire or fire someone based on publicly expressed political ideology It may make us feel better to point the finger over there to distract from the parallels of what is going on locally but doing so is hardly practical.