{"id":1979,"date":"2016-01-08T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:02:59","slug":"social-credit-you-are-soaking-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Social Credit &#8230; You Are Soaking In It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Social Credit \u2026 You Are Soaking In It<\/b><br \/>Setting a social metric based on what you buy, what you post, who you have in your social network on and offline\u2026this 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.<br \/>Look around. \u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/01\/replacing_judgm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Replacing Judgment with Algorithms \u2013 Schneier on Security<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/01\/replacing_judgm.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/jhVSXrqutv0ZcvjIc2_skWexlb4nHUMPRjhXcNURwP1HemymrATnA4uhf7sCKp8OFIVAoeGqXDZt_zwIhWAB=w120-h120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">\n<p>Replacing Judgment with Algorithms. China is considering a new \u201csocial credit\u201d system, designed to rate everyone\u2019s trustworthiness. Many fear that it will become a tool of social control \u2014 but in reality it has a lot in common with the algorithms and systems that score and classify us all every \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TomHiggins\/posts\/C22jVQ2jjXX\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Credit \u2026 You Are Soaking In ItSetting a social metric based on what you buy, what you post, who you have in your social network on and offline\u2026this 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}