====== Social Credit System ======

===== History =====

==== COVID-19 ====

A study published in June 2022 found that 99% of [[COVID-19 pandemic]]-related data websites were systematically tracking users without their consent.((Winters, N. (2022, July 14). //STUDY: 99% of COVID-19 data websites secretly track users.// The National Pulse. https://archive.ph/rLMQY)) This was done through the use of third-party "cookies", and was found from an analysis of 5,500 governmental websites and over 118,000 URLs administrated by governments.((Gotze, M., Matic, S., Iordanou, C., Smaragdakis, G., & Laoutaris, N. (2022). //Measuring web cookies in governmental websites.// 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531545)) In her article for the [[National Pulse]], journalist [[Natalie Winters]] noted the concerning implications for how this data made be used to track and control citizens, with such actions recently flaring up in [[China]], consistent with their social credit score system.
===== Role of the World Economic Forum =====
  * Claim: The WEF’s digital identity scheme is laying the foundation for a global social credit system that will give them the power to control citizens and punish those they deem “untrustworthy.”((February 20, 2022 | [[Rair Foundation]] | [[https://rairfoundation.com/great-reset-in-action-world-economic-forums-communist-digital-identity-scheme-video/|Great Reset in Action: World Economic Forum's Communist 'Digital Identity' Scheme (Video)]]))