On  @SamHarrisOrg said:
"Welcome to the panopticon...
China becomes an episode of Black Mirror"
and shared this article:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278

to which my response was:
"Give it 5-10 years, then we'll have it too, but with better marketing, but effectively similar.
IIRC Eindhoven has a system (in pilot?) 'similar' as shown in the head picture (Person of Interest style) ... for a snitch city project. Fighting crime and/or terrorism will be used too"

Leave no dark corner

Dandan Fan's every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she's happy about that. "Social credit" will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people.

ABC News
@FreePietje I'm highly suspicious of all the articles we've been reading recently about China's "social credit". Not to say that the surveillance is not pervasive and relatively effective, but i have good reasons to believe they are nowhere near being able to effectively monitor 1.4 billion people, whose about 50% still live in the countryside.
On the other hand, I think they have good motives to make the world thinks they can
@Sosthene
Why/what has made you suspicious?
@FreePietje the motive would be to seem stronger than they really are to other countries, and it makes perfect sense at a time when the Chinese establishment is feeling weakened and threaten. I also think there's some ground to their claim though, I think that such a system might be possible and even close to production in Beijing and Shanghai and maybe a couple major cities, but nowhere near the whole country. But Beijing is what matters to them anyway