USA’s version of communist china’s social credit is here, it’s called the secret SIFT “trustworthiness SCORE (1-100)

We’re All Being Judged By A Secret “Trustworthiness” Score

Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we’re buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal.
More than 16,000 signals are analyzed by a service called Sift, which generates a “Sift score” ranging from 1 – 100. The score is used to flag devices, credit cards and accounts that a vendor may want to block based on a person or entity’s overall “trustworthiness” score, according to a company spokeswoman.
From the Sift website:
Each time we get an event — be it a page view or an API event — we extract features related to those events and compute the Sift Score. These features are then weighed based on fraud we’ve seen both on your site and within our global network, and determine a user’s Score. There are features that can negatively impact a Score as well as ones which have a positive impact.

Don Junior: Big Tech and liberal activists could construct a private “social credit” system like communist China has right now

From Donald Trump Jr.’s most recent op-ed on Big Tech censorship of conservatives:

Left unchecked, Big Tech and liberal activists could construct a private “social credit” system — not unlike what the communists have nightmarishly implemented in China — that excludes outspoken conservatives from wide swaths of American life simply because their political views differ from those of tech executives.

The Reality of the Chinese Social Credit System

We are primarily funded by readers. Please subscribe and donate to support us!

“…its main goal is to improve governance and market order in a country still beset by rampant fraud and counterfeiting.”

 

China blocks 17.5 million plane tickets for people without enough ‘social credit’

It also emerged this week that a Chinese company had been tracking the movements of 2.5 million people in the province, using police checkpoints and security cameras to record location data in a system allegedly designed to keep tabs on Muslims.

More than one million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Islamic minorities in Xinjiang have been detained in re-education camps, according to the UN.

The government insists the camps are vocational training centres designed to rid the region of extremism, but former inmates have allegedly been tortured, forced to consume pork and alcohol, and ordered to renounce their religion.

 

AC

Views:

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.