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Citizens must apply for a ID card, which contains information: name, gender, nationality, date of birth, address, ID number, and biometric information, such as photos, facial features, palm features, fingerprints, DNA.
The danger of cashless society is not only authority can stop you from spending your digital money, But also they can stop you from earning digital money.
Once you are blacklisted by Social Credit System, you are banned from using digital wallet WeChat to receive salary.
——This makes it hard for you to find a job to make a living. That's why tens of thousands Blacklisted people are becoming homeless.
Fun fact: you can earn 4 social credit points for getting vaccinated, while lose 50 points for a single social media post that deemed disinformation in China.
You can also earn 20 points for reporting your neighbor as a suspect.
Now, Chinese people (in Rongcheng city) with the highest social credit rating, the 'AAA' rating, are lining up to get free groceries (sweet potatoes) from the government-run grocery store.
Meanwhile tens of thousands Chinese people with the lowest social credit rating, the 'D' rating, (hence they are blacklisted) are becoming homeless.
Because once you are blacklisted, you are immediately cut off from banking and digital wallet.
——This makes it hard for you to find a job to make a living.
Chinese 15-Minute cities are open air prisons. Cameras are everywhere and they are easy to lockdown.
Facial recognition is mandatory to enter and leave your neighborhood zone.
A special permit issued by the government is required if your friends want to visit you.
China's WeChat app tells users whether they are within a 500-meter radius of someone, who have the lowest social credit scores and are on the social credit blacklist.
It maps ppl near you with their social credit score, so you move away from undesirables & not lose your points.
It shows people if they're standing near someone in debt (to Chinese government, so they are blacklisted) — a part of its intrusive 'social credit' policy.
If you are on social credit blacklist, you become a ghost, a 'unperson' like in '1984', people are trying to get away from you like you have infectious disease.