US Universities are Creating Social-Credit Coronavirus Surveillance Systems

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Researchers at the University of Southern California, Emory University, and the University of Texas Health Science Center are working on a tracking system, after receiving federal funding to complete the task by August. The Chinese-inspired system will consist of a mobile app for contact-tracing people who either have tested positive or who may have been in contact with someone who may have suspicious symptoms – and that includes just about everyone. The system will track real-time locations and behavior of everyone and will calculate “personal risk scores”. Those with low scores will be quarantined and denied employment. China’s system is used to monitor people’s social and political behavior to deny travel and jobs to those who do not obey. -GEG

Three US universities are responding to the coronavirus crisis by creating (irony of all ironies) a Chinese style social credit surveillance system that will ‘score’ people based on their exposure to the virus.

According to a report from Tech site dot.LA, researchers at the University of Southern California, Emory University, and the University of Texas Health Science Center are jointly working on the system after receiving federal grant funding.

Like the Chinese social credit system, the system will consist of a mobile app for contact tracing the virus, and promises to track the real-time location and symptoms of individuals to calculate “personal risk scores”.

The score would be used to determine the need “for quarantine and decontamination,” according to the report, with “aggregate risk scores” also assigned to “locations like your neighborhood grocery store.”

The universities hope to have a working mobile app by August, in time for the start of the fall semester.

Welcome to the new normal. Surely the fallout of this system will all be positive.

When the coronavirus vaccine eventually comes along the system will presumably be updated to show who has had it and who hasn’t.

High social credit points for those who have taken it, no travel privileges for those who refuse!

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Phyllis
Phyllis
2 years ago

This CANNOT be allowed to happen in this country, ever! This is the mark of the beast, the yellow Star of David, the ankle monitor! Can’t buy or sell if you don’t have the tracker on your phone? What if you don’t have a phone, don’t want one, can’t afford one? Eh, what then? A tattooed number, maybe, on your forehead?!?!? Frell that! I WILL NEVER SUBMIT TO THIS! I hope no one else does, either, but they will, the stupid sheeple will go for it – we must be safe at all costs, after all! They deserve what they… Read more »