“A few months ago, you accidentally defaulted on a phone bill. The mistake affects your credit score: It’s hard to get a loan. You can no longer make jokes about Marco Rubio on Twitter; such remarks will algorithmically define you as a libertarian loon—another sort of person likely to default on social obligations. After a couple of close friends miss their student loan repayments, you can’t even travel: your social circle is now all ‘discredited, unable to take a single step.'” By 2020, everyone in China will have all of their measurable behaviors funneled into one unified social credit score. While the Chinese scoring system is taking place out in the open, it’s not much of stretch to imagine that Americans are increasingly being subjected to similar ranking systems based on personal behavior and various information they’ve shared (knowingly or not). The New Republic: How Do You Control 1.4 Billion People?

+ “In several big cities in China, including here in Shanghai, the government is even tracking jaywalkers. Cameras record them going through intersections, zero in on their face, and then publicly shame them on nearby video screens.” CBS News on China’s behavior monitoring system.