All of this cloud data will eventually be funneled into your social credit score ("Sesame Credit"). This is already happening. Chinese individuals are being ost

All of this cloud data will eventually be funneled into your social credit score ("Sesame Credit"). This is already happening. Chinese individuals are being ostracized from personal and professional relations because of their score. China invented whuffie, but in the most dystopian and fascist way possible. -- Edit with citations as requested. (I'm not asserting that this social pressure is universal or even common yet.) [0] https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/ https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/ She explained how to boost my score. “They will check what kind of friends you have,” she said. “If your friends are all high-score people, it’s good for you. If you have some bad-credit people as friends, it’s not nice.” [1] https://theconversation.com/chinas-social-credit-system-puts-its-people-under-pressure-to-be-model-citizens-89963 https://theconversation.com/chinas-social-credit-system-puts... “Since last December, the National Development and Reform Commission and Central Bank of China began to approve pilot plans to integrate big data with the Social Credit System. As one of China’s first pilot provinces, Guizhou province was selected to showcase a government-led experiment of a big data-empowered Social Credit System.” Australia, for example now lowers your credit score if you pay bills late. But it doesn't (yet?) penalize you for who you associate with.