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 outs together all of a person’s social history, political leanings, personal habits, and social interactions to calculate their trust score. 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.