Wired features a lengthy article this week delving into China's grand social credit experiment. More than a financial rating, scores with services like the government-approved Zhima Credit serve to provide access to, or denial of access to, all manner of services and opportunities based on the many things you can pay for through the Alipay App. Now, the privately held Zhima is bringing in government data, like unpaid court fines, to affect that score. And the Chinese government has stated it would like a future social credit service 'that covers the whole society" by 2020. How will private credit scoring merge with a government-sponsored service and how will online activity determine a person's fate in Chinese society?
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