China: Credit Scores and Facial Recognition
By: Julian Renteria
China's Government
How?
- Current leader: Xi Jinping
Facial Recognition
- Technological advancement
Facial Recognition
- Adding 400 million more by 2025
- Approximately 170 million cameras
Good
- Implementing laws and rules
Bad
Bad
- Helps determine social credit scores
Social Credit Score
- Scored on a grading scale based on ones actions
Social Credit Score
- Lower scores = punishments
- Everyone starts with 1000 points
Bad
- Distrust between citizens
Bad
- Neighbors report to the government
- Cannot buy travel tickets
- Students cannot get into universities
Opinion Statement
- Social credit should not exist
- Facial recognition is good
Future