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UK Government to launch Social Credit System in 2022
theexpose.uk ^ | 10/26/2021 | theexpose.uk

Posted on 10/26/2021 6:29:19 PM PDT by ransomnote

There is a coordinated effort worldwide to introduce a Digital Identity and Social Credit System, and the latter is coming to the United Kingdom from January 2022 according to a UK Government press release.



In January 2022 the the Department of Health and Social Care, currently led by Sajid Javid, plan to launch a new app that will allegedly help people to make positive changes to their diet and physical activity.

A pilot scheme will see users wear wrist-worn devices that can generate personalised health recommendations, such as increasing their step count, eating more fruit and vegetables, and decreasing portion sizes.

Users will allegedly collect points for behaviours deemed healthy by the Government, which will unlock “rewards”. The Government says these rewards could include “gym passes, clothes or food vouchers, discounts for shops, and cinema or theme park tickets”.

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A company known as HeadUp has been chosen to deliver the pilot social credit system scheme, with the Government claiming another £3 million also coming from the Department of Health and Social Care to provide incentives, but in reality the £3 million is coming from the British taxpayer.

HeadUp has offices around the world and the HeadUp team has 20+ years experience in health tech and insurtech. The company has partnerships with Apple, FitBit, Garmin as well as the US Military, leading life and health insurers and now the UK Government.

The company was founded by Glenn Riseley, an Australian who spent 14 years in the corporate wellness sector. To give you an idea of what the HeadUp business is really about we took a look at some of the statements made by CEO Glenn Risely in various blog posts on the HeadUp site.

Glenn Riseley doesn’t believe the customer is always right, and claims it his company’s job to know what customers really need. How do they do this? By collecting as much data on you as possible of course.

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But Glenn says that in order to collect your data his company needs to build trust and intimacy with you. He says that every data point they collect and every insight they deliver has to move the company a step closer to you so that you share even more data with them.

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Glenn also believes that the thinking should be left to the professionals and states that HeadUp strives to do the thinking for people.

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The UK Governments Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajid Javid states the reason for the pilot social credit system is that he wants to ensure “we’re doing as much as we can to tackle health disparities across the country, and this new pilot will pave the way for developing innovative ways to improve the lives of individuals, and also help to reduce strain on the NHS.

“The Office of Health Improvement and Disparities is driving forward our levelling up agenda for health and ensuring prevention is a vital part of everything we do.

“This pilot is an excellent opportunity to find how best to inspire people to make small changes to their daily lives that will have a lasting positive impact on their health.”

But is this really all it’s about?

In June the Government said it plans to impose a UK wide ban on TV adverts for food high in sugar, salt and fat airing before 9pm. Products affected include chocolate, burgers, soft drinks, cakes, sweets, ice cream, biscuits, sweetened juices, crisps, chips and pizzas.

From the end of 2022 the pre-9pm ban will be enforced and TV adverts for junk food also including breakfast cereals, yoghurts, ready meals, chicken nuggets and battered fish – will be allowed only between 9pm and 5.30am.

Commercials for “less healthy” meals out will also not be shown outside this period.

This Government now wants to control what you eat and monitor your supermarket spending, and your daily exercise activities. If the Government can reward you for doing what it wants you to do, then it can certainly punish you if you refuse to do so, especially if they bring in a digital currency.

Just look at China’s Social Credit System. It is a broad regulatory framework, intended to report on the ‘trustworthiness’ of individuals, corporations, and governmental entities across China.

The exact methodology is a secret — but examples of infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games, and posting fake news online, specifically about terrorist attacks or airport security.

Other potential punishable offenses include spending too long playing video games, wasting money on frivolous purchases, and posting on social media.

China has already started punishing people by restricting their travel, including banning them from flights. Authorities banned people from purchasing flights 17.5 million times by the end of 2018, according to the National Public Credit Information Centre.

They can also clamp down on luxury options — many are barred from getting business-class train tickets, and some are kept out of the best hotels. The list of punishments is endless and also includes preventing kids from attending the best schools, and now they are attempting to bring it in right under your nose in the UK.

How long will it be before employers start demanding that employees use the new app and ask to see their diet and exercise history before offering someone a job? Pubs and restaurants will most likely end up having to also check everyone’s vaccination status before entry, will they also need to change their diet and exercise history before being able to sell them a burger?

What about treatment through the NHS? Will they be expected to use the app for rationing healthcare, only treating those who have performed well on the app by eating healthily and exercising?

The Boiling Frog Syndrome

You could be forgiven for believing the Government has the nations best interests at heart by introducing an app that rewards you for behaviour deemed to be healthy, if you are also not aware that they are planning to bring in a digital identity system and digital currency under which they are debating whether to impose limits on how it can be spent.

But the problem is that plans for all three of these things have been advancing for months.

The UK Government is planning to boost the legal status of digital identities to make them as widely recognised as drivers licenses and bank statements, and they will most likely come in the form of a mobile phone app. The ticket to imposing them for good will come in the form of the Vaccine Passport.

Meanwhile the Bank of England and HM Treasury have established the Central Bank Digital Currency Taskforce to coordinate the exploration of a potential UK Digital Currency. Make no mistake that this system would ultimately replace cash and would allow the Government to know what you are spending, when you are spending it, where you are spending it, and what you are spending it on.

If they can outlaw TV adverts for breakfast cereals before 9pm then what is to stop them imposing limits or a ban on what you can spend a new UK Digital Currency on, if it deemed to be unhealthy by the Government?

All the evidence is there. There is a coordinated effort worldwide to bring in a digital identity and social credit system right under your nose, and it looks like both will be enforced in the UK by January 2022.

 


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1 posted on 10/26/2021 6:29:19 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Cathi; Unrepentant VN Vet; metmom; Fractal Trader; SecAmndmt; bagster; doc maverick; ...

PING

May God bless all those fighting to get the truth past the censors, and may He provide the funding needed for TheExpose.uk to continue operation.


2 posted on 10/26/2021 6:30:07 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

It’s just a voluntary pilot program.

for now


3 posted on 10/26/2021 7:14:19 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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To: ransomnote

This is nothing more than a revival of the class system under a different name.


4 posted on 10/26/2021 7:19:15 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: ransomnote

Should try on welfare recipients here...just as a “test”


5 posted on 10/26/2021 7:32:13 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issueOur enemies plan to The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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6 posted on 10/26/2021 7:45:29 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Pollard

So was the vaccine


7 posted on 10/26/2021 7:54:40 PM PDT by sanjuanbob (I’ve got blisters on my fingers)
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To: ransomnote

BULL CRAP! I read the press release and it simply sounds like a health related app. Hell, Apple beat them to it by years with the Apple Watch.

It sounds like it could help our resident anti-vaxxers deal with their morbid obesity. But it’s sure not a “social credit system” with which you try to conflate it.


8 posted on 10/26/2021 8:58:46 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: ransomnote

How to get people to go along with Big Brother controlling you.

Disguise it as social media or something that is allegedly good for you.


9 posted on 10/26/2021 9:07:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: House Atreides

Is there even a sliver of the globalist agenda you DON’T support?


10 posted on 10/26/2021 10:16:16 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: metmom

Shocking to see ANYONE, here, defend this, isn’t it?


11 posted on 10/26/2021 10:23:41 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Jane Long

Indeed and yet, here they are.


12 posted on 10/26/2021 11:38:48 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ransomnote

Clearly not.

FR has always had a problems with trolls working to influence conservatives towards the communist/socialist agenda.


13 posted on 10/26/2021 11:44:40 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: House Atreides

...resident antivaxxers morbid obesity...
My, aren’t you a presumptive little git, for a troll.


14 posted on 10/27/2021 2:38:24 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: ransomnote

“ Is there even a sliver of the globalist agenda you DON’T support?”
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Who the hell said I support it. I simply said it wasn’t a “social credit system” with which you try to conflate it.

And guess what…. it’s doomed to fail. It will be a standard low-quality government product. People really interested in such a product will get a Fitbit or an Apple Watch.


15 posted on 10/27/2021 5:33:48 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Check out the company developing the app and that company’s ownership.

I’ve got a very bad feeling about this health related app.


16 posted on 10/27/2021 5:38:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: metmom

Some trolls are forbidden from speaking certain truths.

Like:

The mRNA vaccine is a form of gene therapy
Communism is inherently evil
That ___ government program is an overreach of government’s just role, and represents an encroachment on liberty

It has been around for many years…

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty, suspect anyone who approaches that jewel, for nothing can protect it but downright force, and whenever you give up that force you are inevitablely ruined” Patrick Henry


17 posted on 10/27/2021 5:49:08 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: ransomnote; metmom; bitt; LucyT
(From the press release listed in the first paragraph)
:" As an evidence-based, data science company focused on people’s health around the world,
we are immensely proud to be working with the government and key stakeholders, people in the community, and with the Behavioural Insights Team
as our design and evaluation partner, to play a part in piloting an exciting new approach to the urgent and important challenge of helping people engage
with their health and improve their health behaviours."

"The Health Incentives Scheme was announced as part of a £100 million package of government support to help those living with obesity
to move closer towards a healthier weight and give them the tools they need to maintain this."

"The pilot will launch in January 2022 and will run for 6 months in a defined location in England to be announced in due course. "

(MY COMMENT/tik): The concept of a government run "Social Credit Score", ostensibly for 'health reasons', still remains an invasion of privacy, regardless of the motive.
Originally designed to help individual health, it will evolve into an intrusive command and control reporting application, while assuring individual privacy.
This is Bloody Balderdash !
By even proposing this program, supposedly for beneficial health reasons, one should also be aware that the 'camel's nose is under the tent',
since this is a test run of the Social Credit Score employed by the Chinese to keep their entire population compliant.
This is nothing more than an introduction to the Chinese Gulag system : Obey,.. or be socially and economically penalized !

18 posted on 10/27/2021 8:55:10 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: bitt

So many creative writers foresaw the future. There will be a dramatic increase in suicide among the most creative and intelligent, a second brain drain of Britishers.


19 posted on 10/27/2021 11:49:22 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the gov out of medicine, education and forests!)
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To: old curmudgeon

The modern noblemen, aristocrats, what ever you call them, want their serfs back.


20 posted on 10/27/2021 5:10:10 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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