Black Mirror Reflections

Examples

From the article Black Mirror is almost a reality

1- Man couldnt buy a plane ticket his score was too low

China launched a pilot version of the scheme in 2010 in a province just north of Shanghai.

This pilot system provides incentives for those with a high social credit score such as priority access to public housing, travel visas and job promotions.   

Liu Hu, a journalist in China, told CBS News that when he tried to book a flight, he was told he was banned from flying because he was on a list of untrustworthy people.

Mr Liu was issued with a court order to apologize for a series of tweets he wrote and was then told his apology was insincere.

As a result his score dropped and he found himself on the list of undesirables. 

2- surveillance cameras in china are already able to know cars and people

This is all made possible by China's ever-expanding surveillance network, which currently boasts 200 million AI-powered cameras.

China hopes to triple this number before the scorecard system's launch. 

Xu Li, CEO of Sensetime, one of China's most successful artificial intelligence companies, said: 'It can recognise more than 4,000 vehicles.

'We can tell whether it is an adult, a child, male or female.'

3-  Things you can control will negatively impact you if the government does approve.

Those rated 'top citizens' get VIP treatment at airports, discounted loans, waived deposits on hotel and car rentals and fast-tracking to elite universities. 

Fraud, tax evasion and smoking in non-smoking areas can drop your ranking, as well as buying items in supermarkets that the government doesn't approve of - such as alcohol or video games.

This is basically the start of a dystopian society where the government will control every little aspect of your life. 

I think that I would just be really really conscious of what I do and what I say as well as trying to stop any bad habits that would come back to bite me.

I feel that this information relates to our current project because it’s a lot like the assignment we did the other day with branding our social media because it’s telling you what you’re doing wrong and right and those are the things that we need to focus on for our social media presence , we have to focus on keeping the good on social media and the bad off of social media, which is the same things that they have to do, keep the bad out of their public life and keep the good in their public life