Monday, April 1, 2019

The Social Credit App (part 1)


What if your smartphone, smart TV, and computer were monitoring your activities to the point that it affected your social standing, your ability to get a job, and even which transportation you were allowed to use? What if you were essentially labeled a loser through this system because you spent too many hours during the week playing video games, or had accrued too much credit card debt? What if having the "loser" label meant that your phone would ring with a ringtone that shamed you publicly and alerted others around you to your lower status. This might sound like an Orwellian, dystopian sci-fi movie, but it is reality in one country, and could eventually be coming to a theater near you...

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