China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at a micro level
&gt; Now every picture posted, every comment made, every driving infraction could go into a central database to produce a person&#x27;s &#x27;trustworthiness&#x27; score.<p>How is this China-only ? Can&#x27;t Facebook do the same ? Can&#x27;t the government force Facebook, Microsoft, etc to give out all the information that we generate in their networks ?
Can&#x27;t they compute such a &quot;trustworthiness&quot; score and sell it to your (potential) employer ?<p>Of course they can and they will if they don&#x27;t already.<p>I&#x27;ve agreed to countless &quot;license agreements&quot; which I haven&#x27;t read - I might have given some company my exclusive permission to monitor my every move...<p>What if <i>your</i> agreement contained a special clause not present in other user&#x27;s agreements ?<p>There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that what is going on in China will become the status quo in a lot of other countries and this will accelerate as shit gets tougher due to all the global problems that we now face.<p>What&#x27;s even more disappointing is that these surveillance systems are most probably built on top of open source software and libraries - which have been ideologically released in order to increase the user&#x27;s &#x27;freedom&#x27;, yet who would have thought ...<p>Unfortunately the dream of a better, closer, freer world is now passing through a nightmare phase - we&#x27;ve built the perfect tools for crazies to do their crazy thing...