Originally Posted by
montesquieu
Totally agree.
In China they are deploying this technology along with other big data driving initiatives such as the Citizen score - if you are are a criminal - or a criminal as far as the state is concerned which might include someone with opinions contrary to the CCP or even just campaigning against some policy issue - your score will be reduced, to the point where you won't be able to get credit, rent an apartment or even buy a train ticket (you need state ID to buy train tickets in China).
Great for tourists - Beijing has to be the safest place in the world for tourists, there are police, plain clothes or uniformed, on every street - but not so great if you don't go along with Chairman Xi's worldview.