Blog Post #11

 EOTO Presentations

During the EOTO presentations, I learned more about social credit score. I already knew of this term but didn't know much, and some of the information really surprised me. Social credit score is a broad regulatory framework intended to report on the 'trustworthiness' of individuals, corporations, and governmental entities across China. 

China's social credit score is still in its early stages but continues to develop into a unified record for entities to make good business decisions. The US citizens might be freaked out to think that the Government is watching all your moves which they already are but most people in China actually approve of this. Only 1% of people disagree which is a very small percentage. 

China will monitor basically everything and decide if you have a good social credit score. The Government will have a lot of power and know what people are doing.

The Effects

This system gives China's government a lot of power and knowledge where it could be used against people. Especially to discriminate against certain groups of people, ethnic groups, political, or religious. Sources say that this system is also coming to America soon and will share information about "white supremacists." 

This system in America will block people from certain apps where they might be suspicious of your activity. Certain apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Venmo, or PayPal. For example, if you have a suspicious Venmo transfer to another person they might block you and you are now unable to use that app which then leads you to get another app such as PayPal. Another example is my friend got blocked from Snapchat she doesn't know why but her account just completely disappeared and she was not allowed to log in again. She was finally able to create another account. But it is so weird how one day it is fine and the next she is completely blocked for no reason.