[jfengel]

Where is that? Are they banned, or just haven't reached you yet?

As dumb as it is that we've invited a corporation to spy with government approval, I suspect that less formal but still ubiquitous surveillance is coming for you, too, unless your government actively prevents it.

[culi]

China's supreme court banned the use of facial recognition in public spaces in 2021.

Americans need to wake up and realize they are the exception not the rule when it comes to the normalization of a surveillance state

[KetoManx64]

China has a social credit score that controls what schools, jobs, and things you can buy. If yohr score goes down too low you can lose your job and lose your degrees.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkWokLqPOg

[frm88]

There has been a degree of misreporting and misconceptions in English-language mass media due to translation errors, sensationalism, conflicting information and lack of comprehensive analysis.[7][43][122][44][123] Examples of such popular misconceptions include a widespread misassumption that Chinese citizens are rewarded and punished based on a numerical score (social credit score) assigned by the system, that its decisions are taken by AI and that it constantly monitors Chinese citizens.[16][122][39][124][5][6]

From wikipedia, section Misconceptions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit_system

[culi]

No that is made up nonsense. It's mind boggling to me how many Americans truly believe in this.

They have attempted many times to create a credit score system like the US but have failed to centralize anything like the US has. The US credit score system is also much more pervasive and can sometimes determine whether or not you're allowed to buy a house.

Separately there was an attempt to build a "social credit" system that is only applied to political and business leaders. Basically anyone who holds some sort of power in society. It's not a way to control regular people. This also failed to ever come to anything that's truly nationalized.

[bigyabai]

Yes. They are banned in many places where the population has control of the government instead of letting Larry Ellison making that decision on your behalf.

I suspect that you underestimate how captured America's politics are on a relative scale.

[jfengel]

Oh, I am well aware how deeply screwed we are. I hope everyone else is learning from our negative example.

[retired]

All of Europe. Haven’t seen an AI camera anywhere.