"Dear passengers, people who travel without a ticket, or behave disorderly, or smoke in public areas, will be punished according to regulations and the behaviou

"Dear passengers, people who travel without a ticket, or behave disorderly, or smoke in public areas, will be punished according to regulations and the behaviour will be recorded in individual credit information system. To avoid a negative record of personal credit please follow the relevant regulations and help with the orders on the train and at the station." To me, this is the most worrisome part of the article. The implementation of an "individual credit system" would grant an administration an unprecedented amount of control over the lives of individuals, from policing the actions of an individual within their own home, punishing those who deviate from their "proper" social roles (imagine an individual losing credit for being openly gay), or actively suppressing any perceived threat to the administration. Taxing sugar or requiring companies to put warning labels on their products is laughably tame compared to this level of invasiveness. "And although the American tech giants have become accomplished data vampires in their own right, they are mere amateurs compared to their Chinese counterparts, who are not hampered by concerns about data protection, privacy or even the rule of law." I was under the impression that "deep blue" states were more effective than red states at implementing privacy laws. Think of California's Consumer Privacy Act. At any rate, the article says that "any data a local company holds effectively belongs also to the state". I don't know of a comparable policy in any state here in the US.