Social Credit … You Are Soaking In It
Setting a social metric based on what you buy, what you post, who you have in your social network on and offline…this is not an invention by the Chinese state but an idea they have lifted from governments that have been working to improve it for years.
Look around. 
Replacing Judgment with Algorithms. China is considering a new “social credit” system, designed to rate everyone’s trustworthiness. Many fear that it will become a tool of social control — but in reality it has a lot in common with the algorithms and systems that score and classify us all every …