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China's citizens are going to be controlled and monitored through their own social rating system. It’s called the ‘National Social Credit System.’
The Chinese government wants the basic structures of this Social Credit System to be in place by 2020.
The goal is raising the awareness for integrities and the level of credibility within society. It presents as a means to perfect the socialist market economy as well as strengthening and innovating governance of society. This indicates that the Chinese government views it both as a means to regulate the economy at a business level and as a tool of governance to steer the behaviour of citizens.
The Chinese government aims at assessing the trustworthiness and compliance of each person. Data stems both from peoples’ own accounts, as well as their network’s activities. Website operators can mine the traces of data that we leave and derive a full social profile, including e.g. peoples’ location, friends, health records, insurance, private messages, financial situation, gaming duration, smart home statistics, preferred newspapers, shopping history, and dating behavior.
Once implemented the system will manage the rewards, or punishments, of citizens on the basis of their economic and personal behaviour. Some types of punishments could be flight bans, exclusion from private schools, slow internet connection, exclusion from high prestige work, exclusion from hotels, registration on a public blacklist.
When the Social Credit System rolls out the final touches, it will constitute a new way of controlling both the behaviour of individuals and of businesses.