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Everywhere she goes, Oh Young Houyu is followed. What she buys, how she behaves is tracked and scored to show how responsible and trustworthy she is. It's called the social credit system. In one version now being tested, a person's reputation is scored on a scale of three fifty to nine fifty. And Halyuk, with a good score of seven fifty two, is okay with it.
In fact, most people are. It's a mechanism, like, pushes you to become a better citizen. It's big data meets big brother, expanding how the government monitors, understands, and ultimately controls its 1,400,000,000 citizens. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and facial recognition Glasses. And a web of more than 200,000,000 surveillance cameras.
Are people bothered by privacy concerns?
We think, it's a lot of camera Keep the safety. It's really good. We can accept it.
Companies are experimenting with the algorithms to help the government create the new national social credit system. The government also has pilot projects. In one, citizens are required to do hours of unpaid work to get benefits, and scores are docked for things like littering, a messy yard, gossip, even jaywalking. Video of offenders is shown on the local news. And information collectors like Jo Ai Ni are paid to report on their neighbors.
Her quota, 10 injuries a month. Like the man who carried a drunk person home. A good deed, she says. Good social credit gets rewarded with perks like cheap loans and travel deals, but a bad score means public shame and worse. Hwang Hwaijun lost a court case and didn't pay.
Now he's on a government blacklist.
Beautiful.
I can't buy airplane or train tickets, he says. And the list goes on. Being discredited makes it hard to get a job or put kids in top schools. The social credit system will go nationwide next year, and few here are willing to criticize it. Something that may pose a risk itself for a bad score and the life that comes with it.
Janice Mackie Frayer, NBC News, Beijing.