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Daily Dashboard | China's Social Credit System designed to rate 'trustworthiness' Related reading: Overview of global AI governance law and policy — Part 2: UK

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The Chinese government is developing a Social Credit System that will rate the “trustworthiness” of 1.3 billion citizens in a move to measure and enhance trust nationwide, Wired reports. The SCS policy states, “It will forge a public opinion environment where keeping trust is glorious. It will strengthen sincerity in government affairs, commercial sincerity, social sincerity and the construction of judicial credibility.” The scoring system, which is voluntary at this point, will become mandatory for both citizens and legal persons in 2020. Low scores will carry penalties, such as slower internet speed and removal of the right to travel freely abroad. Johan Lagerkvist, a Chinese internet specialist at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, described the system as “Amazon's consumer tracking with an Orwellian political twist.” 
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