Rating of social trust in China

• social trust rating in China

July 14, 2014 China's State Council issued a historic document, entitled "Program of creating social credit system (2014-2020)." For the results of the first five-year plan has given mankind a system of total control trustworthiness citizens anxiously watched around the world: for electronic control system - is our common future, whether we like it or not.

On the implementation of the social credit system - or, as the Chinese authorities, "social trust" - in the country began to talk more in 2007. However, then it was just about the usual system of control of financial reliability - scaling and improving scoring systems "in lending, taxation, implementation of contracts and product quality." However, the appetite comes with eating: in the process of total control over the development of commercial trustworthiness of citizens and companies the word "commercial" quietly dropped out of technical specification. The document 2014 social credit system has become a ubiquitous monster from the unsleeping eye which is hidden no delay when returning a rented bicycle or traffic violation, not even enough regular reading party newspapers.

Today, the social credit system works in China in test mode, but its implementation goes pretty smartly. And, apparently, the stated purpose - to extend the system to the whole country by 2020 - the Chinese will achieve. Well, if not - responsible comrades on yourself to find out what is fraught with falling personal rating.

of social trust rating - the basis of the system. He is assigned to every citizen and is tied to the number of its internal passport. When calculating the rankings, said the Chinese government will take into account more than 160 thousand options, which will track with the help of data from more than a hundred institutions - both commercial and governmental. Accurate calculations of the system is kept secret, but it is possible to judge about some detail the experience of 30 pilot cities in China.

The system is arranged simply enough: each citizen is assigned a rating of average starting in 1000 points, which increases or decreases depending on his behavior. The Ladder goes all - as a violation of the law, and harmless at first glance misdeeds: smoking in the wrong places, excessive passion for video games, posts false information on the Internet and even an appeal to the leadership of the country for help in solving social problems, bypassing local authorities.

In the different provinces of China today, there are different rules for the rating calculation and use their individual performance. Thus, the Jiangsu government officially reported that the scoring system will be evaluated how often visits the citizen parent and how well it helps. And in Shanghai downgrade punishable by concealing a previous marriage, parking in the wrong places and the use of car horns on city highways - so the authorities are trying to reduce the noise in the streets.

A model citizen with the highest level of AAA rating will use all sorts of social benefits and privileges. He will be able to concessional loans and receive medical care, it will be the first to raise the service, and his children will be able to come out of the competition at the prestigious school. But the owners of low C, and D ratings will have to pay for everything: without collateral or guarantors they will not give in rent even an umbrella, not to mention the bike. And this is only the beginning of a long list of sanctions, which significantly exceeds the list of rewards - at least not yet.

to start media in the lower rating limit career. Thus, even with the closure of media ranking road to state and municipal positions, high positions in state-owned companies and banks, as owners of D ranking even a taxi prohibited. Yes, and with friends they have, apparently, there are problems: for communication with nizkoreytingovymi pariahs, including virtual friendships on the Internet, with a respectable citizen can take points, which means that the majority prefer to stay away from them.

But the disappearance of virtual friends are not worse than fraught with the loss of points in the social credit system. Today because of the low ranking of more than 9 million Chinese people are denied the right to buy tickets for domestic flights, no more three million have the opportunity to purchase business class tickets when traveling by train.

Already there were cases when applicants whose parents had a problem with the rating, were denied admission to the Chinese universities. A number of Chinese hotels have officially announced that they will not settle in his behind on points.

So in view of the ban on air travel, weekends and holidays violators standards of Chinese society will have to spend at home. Especially on salary undervalued and underpaid work is unlikely to allow them to dream of a fascinating journey.

More difficult will have to pet owners who are in ulichat enough responsible attitude to their pets. Dog walking in the wrong place, walk without a leash and a little too loud barking at the wrong time - minus the points. Well, when sobakovladelets lost all credibility, the dog had just taken away, to pass into other hands, more socially robust.

Despite the fact that in the pilot provinces introducing social rating system runs quite well, about how it will work across the country, even the Chinese themselves have a vague idea. China's population now exceeds 1 billion 400 million people, and an attempt to analyze the flow of each step of the data of any of them is capable of tightly hang even ultra-modern computer network. Mistakes are inevitable right now - and each of them turns into a personal catastrophe.

How, for example, in the case of a woman, which is due to the flow of penalties for crossing the street in the wrong place in a matter of days remained virtually without a single score in the ranking. It later emerged that the victim was a model, who shot to ads that were placed on the sides of buses. facial recognition systems in the fixed fare each bus with a portrait as a personal offense, ruthlessly removing points from unfortunate.

It seems that the misunderstanding is not difficult to resolve - but one with a zero rating, deprived of the right to use the Internet or even renting a bike, may experience serious difficulties in order to file a complaint with the official authorities, demanding justice.

The Chinese system of social credit in his heartless inexorable looks like a real coming of Big Brother: South Korean analysts Asan Institute for Policy Studies called it "Orwellian nightmare", as George Soros denounced President Xi Jinping "the most dangerous enemy of the open society." However, few are so strong in the West, even staunch champions of human rights are not required to immediately call on China to order and ensure respect for the human right to privacy. Western analysts detached Note: presentation of Chinese privacy seriously differ from the European ones, try to redraw the eastern manners that were formed over thousands of years - is useless.