Only A Matter Of Time Until A National Social Credit System?
The United Kingdom continues its decline by unveiling new features to the National Health Service’s (NHS) app to track vaccine compliance. The UK.gov website claims the “special category” data collected from its users is processed “in accordance with the requirements set by the law.”
The NHS app will collect all personal data concerning health, including whether or not you isolated after testing positive with Covid-19.
Information included in the data collection process or “venue details”:
Race
Political Affiliation
Religion
Sex Life or Sexual Orientation
Trade Union Membership
The UK government claims it collects this data so the app can update the Covid status of each patient correctly. After the process is complete, the government pinky promises it “promptly delete(s) the data” from its system.
The NHS Act 2006 granted the Secretary of State the powers to take control of decision-making “for the purpose of protecting public health.”
UK.gov site:
"This is the power that the Sectary of State relies on to authorize the design, implementation, and operation of the App by DHSC. We have also sought to implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests as would be required.
As regards Article 22, we note that any automated decisions based on special categories of personal data shall be processed on the basis of Article 9(2)(g) being processing that is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, following the conditions in paragraph 6 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act 2018."
The health app is authorized to process all “special category” data “for reasons of public interest in the area of public health.”
The pandemic response from elected world leaders shows if, given the power, our rulers will find any justification to violate people’s rights and freedoms.
As it clearly states on the UK.gov site under the question: ‘How we ensure we comply with the Data Protection principles,’ the government vows to meet the requirements it created for itself. “We have appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to meet our accountability obligations,” states the UK.
Not to worry, an app created by the government to track all your personal data, including your sexual preference and political opinions, is nothing like a social credit app and will not usher in more totalitarian control.
Just ask Hong Kong.
It’s hard not to draw the line connecting the Chinese Community Party’s social credit app with the NHS’s data-collecting scheme and America’s ruling classes’ penchant for mirroring totalitarianism dressed up as safety.
A March 2021 report by The Diplomat indicated that China’s social credit system is close to 90% complete with the pandemic lockdowns giving the country a chance to test the program’s track and trace design.
Chinese State Information On The Social Credit Program (Google Translation):
“The social credit system is an important part of the socialist market economy system and social governance system. It is based on laws, regulations, standards and contracts, based on a sound credit record and credit infrastructure network covering social members, supported by credit information compliance applications and credit service systems, to establish a culture of integrity and promote the tradition of integrity Virtue is an internal requirement, and trustworthy incentives and untrustworthy restraints are used as rewards and punishments. The purpose is to improve the integrity and credit level of the whole society.
Accelerating the construction of a social credit system is an important foundation for the full implementation of the scientific outlook on development and the construction of a harmonious socialist society. It is an important means to improve the socialist market economic system, strengthen and innovate social governance, and enhance the integrity awareness of social members and create a good credit environment. It is of great significance to enhance the overall competitiveness of the country and promote social development and civilized progress.”
The critics who say America will never become the UK and China haven’t noticed that our ruling class used the pandemic to increase its control over the masses.
With the use of social media and celebrity-backed pressure campaigns, opposition to the narrative spun by the media (the mouthpiece of our American oligarchs) is taken out in quick procession.
Cancel Americans, who speak their outlawed thoughts freely, in the interest of ….
public safety.
health.
patriotism.
At first, the cancellations were aimed strictly at conservatives considered by the ruling class as “alt-right” (people like Alex Jones).
However, as we saw with the multiple attempts at canceling traditionally center-left journalists, (i.e., Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss) who dared to ask questions about the approved Covid/social justice narrative, the need to control speech will never stop with fringe opinions.
Everyone will be taken out.
None of this is a new revelation. Local governments all over the country enlisted their residents as informants against those who dared to break Covid lockdown rules.
‘Conservative’ elected officials complain about “cancel culture” without having any actionable path forward. As if to say, “We see the writing on the wall, but we enjoy the power trip too much to protect our fellow citizens.”
In America, cancel culture is merely the baby steps toward the normalization of attacking those who go against the government’s approved narrative. The real social credit system will build on the effectiveness of using the youth mob’s propensity for violence.