Big data meets Big Brother....it’s a national ‘trust’ score that rates the kind of citizen you are.
It’s not hard to picture, because most of that already happens, thanks to all those data-collecting behemoths like Google, Facebook and Instagram or health-tracking apps such as Fitbit...that constantly monitor and evaluate you.
So a system where all these behaviours are rated as either positive or negative and distilled into a single number, according to rules set by the government isn’t hard to imagine.
Push it a little and you can have a ‘Citizen Score’ and it would tell everyone whether or not you were trustworthy. Plus, your rating would be publicly ranked against that of the entire population and used to determine your eligibility for a mortgage or a job, where your children can go to school - or even just your chances of getting a date! HA!
I agree Caww.