There are important differences between this and a TransUnion credit score. * The government may not discriminate based on a person's TransUnion score, except

There are important differences between this and a TransUnion credit score. * The government may not discriminate based on a person's TransUnion score, except for limited circumstances where it is directly relevant. * The government may not discriminate businesses based on whether they serve people with poor TransUnion scores. Until the Western media is sufficiently assured that this cannot happen, they are (IMO quite rightly) suspicious about the potential of abuse of the infrastructure built to support this by the state. Unfortunately, the exact reasoning why tends to be forgotten, and the suspicion comes across as vague fear, uncertainty, doubt.