The Chinese government made the Social Credit System mandatory for all of it’s citizens worldwide in 2020. It is like a credit score system, but instead of financial information, this puts together all of a person’s social history, political leanings, personal habits, survey information, likes, commentary and social interactions together and calculates a trust score on you. According to What’s Your Citizen Trust Score written by Amulya Shankar in The World, Chinese Officials say it’s a way to influence their citizens behavior to benefit society and move their country forward, but others think it is just the latest step in the country’s long history of state surveillance.
According to a book titled Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together And Why It Might Drive Us Apart, written by world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman published in 2017, we are in an age of “distributed trust”, a paradigm shift driven by innovative technologies that are rewriting the rules of human relationships. Botsman states if we are to benefit from the shift technology has created in our lives, we must understand how trust is built, managed, lost and repaired in this digital age.
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