{"id":3257,"date":"2015-10-22T02:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T02:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2015-10-22T02:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T02:26:36","slug":"inside-chinas-plan-to-give-every-citizen-a-character-score-new-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/inside-chinas-plan-to-give-every-citizen-a-character-score-new-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside China&#8217;s plan to give every citizen a character score | New Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[More info is gradually emerging\u00a0on China&#8217;s social networking dystopia. -e]<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-img-full case3\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-img-full\" title=\"Inside China's plan to give every citizen a character score\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dn28314-1_800.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Inside China's plan to give every citizen a character score\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-details\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you. These are just a few of the measures which the Chinese government plans to use to give scores to all its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Social Credit System (SCS) will come up with these ratings by linking up personal data held by banks, e-commerce sites and social media. The scores will serve not just to indicate an individual\u2019s credit risk, but could be used by potential landlords, employers and even romantic partners to gauge an individual\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t just about financial creditworthiness,\u201d says Rogier Creemers, who studies Chinese media policy and political change at the University of Oxford. \u201cAll that behaviour will be integrated into one comprehensive assessment of you as a person, which will then be used to make you eligible or ineligible for certain jobs, or social services.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28314-inside-chinas-plan-to-give-every-citizen-a-character-score\/\">Inside China&#8217;s plan to give every citizen a character score | New Scientist<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[More info is gradually emerging\u00a0on China&#8217;s social networking dystopia. -e] Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you. These are just a few of the measures which the Chinese government plans to use to give scores to all its citizens. China\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Qx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}