Social credit score in China is wide spread fake news. No such thing exists.
Well, it exist, but not in a manner and for purposes that are discussed outside PRC.
Every organized society requires a means to register and identify its citizens - where that registration is a usually a primary key for other purposes.
A recent blog post claims Australia and Iceland are quickly coming under control of Chinese Social Credit tyranny. Canada, too. Is it true? Or is the post just more “fear P**N”?
If true, then a lot of readers here on OCT will be doing a major re-modelling their offshore arrangements.
(I have abbreviated the article. Link to original at the bottom.)
Link:
Leon Hill - Digital ID = Gateway to Chinese Social Credit
Contemporary societies are dictated by technology and automation. Historical ones with paper, papirus and stone among other recording means.
Before nation states, births, partnerships and deaths were registered by religious organizations where primary keys were DOB, name and surname. It was a period with far lesser inhabitants.
Nowadays, automatic registration is needed where primary key is unique.
Such primary identification value exist in almost every country, whether it's a random string, DOB plus certain specifics w/ or w/o control sum or any other form.
We may be/are all identified by unique passport numbers at least and then by national identification, beside name/surname and dob. Further on, during KYC for accessing financial services, we get secondary key - account number. Analogy for any other service, even communal one.
I've read from OP's link something about Satan's conspiracy
Even Palau and Estonia has the same registration process - like the ones in Australia and Iceland author in that link proposes to run from. Also, by obtaining second citizenship, another citizen's registration is performed.
What is not ethical is that everybody can see citizen's unique registration value and draw informative conclusions that offer further investigation. Those registration systems aren't wile inherently, but government's inability or unwillingness to protect those as private.
Opposite to this would be an anarchy which would bring the economy to collapse. Cryptocurrencies are not intrisically anarchistic - social and economical order is needed to have a stable market.
According to the post (referred to at the top of this thread), social surveillance DOES exist in Iceland now. Are you suggesting that is also "wide spread fake news"?? If it is, in fact, fake news, I will sleep better tonight.
Social surveilance - it exist. When means of automatic citizens' identification and comparison of different data sets are performed without citizens' consent. Extreme Western example is London.
But presuming that every citizens' registration and identification is wile per se is not socially acceptable nor rational.
. There will be no wiggle room for changing or fighting back against the system and rules in place on a country level especially in EU.
