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.1) 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.2) 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.”3)
1)
Winters, N. (2022, July 14). STUDY: 99% of COVID-19 data websites secretly track users. The National Pulse. https://archive.ph/rLMQY
2)
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