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“The government is not omnipotent,” says Shao from his office. “In order to give a well-rounded rating for each resident, we’ll need to tap the market for data. We’ll look to industry associations, private companies, and social media.”

 

Penguins in Antarctica.

Penguins in Antarctica.

Honest Shanghai is one of three-dozen social credit systems run by local governments throughout China. They’re part of a goal by China’s central government to construct a nationwide social credit system by 2020.

But skeptics wonder how far this will go before Honest Shanghai becomes Paranoid Shanghai?

“The government asks people to be honest, but it excludes itself from such scrutiny,” says Zhu Dake, a Humanities professor at Tongji University in Shanghai.