International Business Times - April 28 2015
How good a citizen are you? China hopes to answer that
question for every one of its citizens with a numerical rating system
based on their financial standing, criminal record and social media
behavior. A new translation of the government’s plans for a so-called
social credit system sheds light on how China aims to utilize "Big Data"
to hold all citizens accountable for financial decisions as well as
moral choices.
China’s plans to roll out a citizen rating system has been
in the works for years. Rogier Creemers, a China expert at Oxford
University, recently published a translation
of a document circulated through various levels of government detailing
the six-year rollout of the program. According to a State Council
notice, the central government hopes to have every adult in China
assigned a credit code in addition to a government-issued identity card
by 2020.
“Accelerating the construction of a social credit system is
an important basis for comprehensively implementing the scientific
development view and building a harmonious Socialist society,” the memo
reads, adding that it has “important significance for strengthening the
sincerity consciousness of the members of society.” The "guiding
ideology," the name of a subsection in the memo, states that a key
principle of the system is "government promotion."
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