China has put in place last summer a rating system evaluating every citizen according to his activities, reported the China Daily Asia.
“Credit Score”, French equivalent of risk-assessment customers, determines the ability of each individual to borrow from the bank, the interest rates it must pay or the price of car insurance.
But then usual the “credit score” is evaluated based on its credit history, age, family status or the fact that one is smoking or not, China has pushed the system to a level that worries advocates rights.
Managed by the commerce giant Alibaba online (BABA) and the Chinese holding company Tencent, the Chinese Credit Score takes into account hobbies, friends that we have on networks social, or even shopping habits.
Even more disturbing, the fact of expressing political opinions online also come into account. Issuing contrary opinion to the official policy of the Chinese government and would lower the Credit Score. Owning poor friends or joining political opinions contrary to the official line is bad.
Buy video games decreases the score
The founder of Pirate Party, Rick Falkvinge, summarized the system: “If you buy things that the regime enjoys, like a dishwasher or diapers, your score increases If you buy video games, it will decrease.”.
By gathering all of this data, and the system is supposed to be able to determine the ability of a person to earn money in the future. Thus, playing video games is considered unproductive, and therefore penalizing.
“This is the use of Big Data the most amazing and most massive ever publicly announced,” said the ‘Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Fertik, author of The Reputation Economy.
Some already fear that this utlisation of “Big Data” arrive in the United States and Europe, seeing this system in the shadow of Big Brother.
But the Chinese do seem more worried than that:. nearly 100,000 of them have published their score, available via an app called “Sesame Credit” on Weibo, the local Twitter
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