"Diego.Latella" <[email protected]> writes: > FYI > > _[The following has been reused without explicit authorization under > blanket permission granted for all Risks-Forum Digest materials. The > author(s), the RISKS moderator, and the ACM have no connection with this > reuse.]_ > > D > >> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:46:32 +0200 >> From: Thomas Koenig <[email protected]> >> Subject: Social-credit score system for Germany (Vorausschau) >> >> The German ministry for education and science (BMBF) has published a >> study >> in which it puts forward a Chinese-style social credit system for >> Germany. >> >> A translated quote from the long version on an official BMBF >> https://www.vorausschau.de/vorausschau/de/home/home_node.html#zukuenfte >> (the >> web site's design is atrocious, trying to find the information is quite >> difficult).
[...] Lo sviluppo non è del tutto inaspettato e non è limitato alla Germania (o alla Cina)... e il sistema non è nemmeno del tutto nuovo, solo più INCASINATO. https://web.archive.org/web/20180219161634/https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/germany-mass-surveillance-social-credit-china-big-data-886786 «Germany edges toward Chinese-style rating of citizens» Heike Jahberg Published on February 17, 2018 --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- It sounds like some drastic, Orwellian version of the future. But as Mr. Gigerenzer notes, we in western countries are not as far from such a system as we might like to think. In Germany, he points out, it starts out with the universal credit rating system known as a Schufa. Very much like its US counterpart FICO, Schufa is a private company that assesses the creditworthiness of about three-quarters of all Germans and over 5 million companies in the country. Anyone wanting to rent a house or loan money is required to produce their Schufa rating in Germany – or their FICO score in the US. Additionally, factors like “geo-scoring” can also lower your overall grade if you happen to live in a low-rent neighborhood, or even if a lot of your neighbors have bad credit ratings. In other areas, German health insurers will offer you lower premiums if you don’t get sick as much. They may offer you even better premiums if you share data from your fitness-tracking device to show you’re doing your part to stay healthy. Anyone using websites like Amazon, eBay or Airbnb is asked to rate others and is rated themselves. Those who try to avoid being rated are looked at askance. An increasing number of consumers will be denied certain services or, say, mortgages if they don’t present some kind of rating. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, Giovanni. -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
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