Loading ...New social credit app to reward Italian citizens for ‘virtuous behavior’
Citizens using the app will be rewarded for things such as recycling, using public transports, managing energy well, and not getting fined.
A new app recently released in Italy presents striking similarities with China’s social credit system by rewarding some citizens for their behavior through a point system.
According to local newspaper Corriere di Bologna, which described the concept as “similar to a supermarket points collection,” the app is already active in Rome, where it’s currently in its experimental stages. It is set to be launched in Bologna this fall.
Citizens using the app will be rewarded for things such as recycling, using public transports, managing energy well, and not getting fined.
Did it ever occur to the masses that one day the device that supposedly provided so much information and efficiency in their daily lives would eventually be used to control their behavior and remove their freedoms?
Always thought “Dumb” and “Smart” devices more accurately described the unseen brains or their algos on the other end, definitely not a measure of the users intellect.