Our tool also allowed users to react to the categories they were placed in as being “wrong,” “creepy” or “spot on.”

In the end, she could not remove her data from the majority of providers.

Users can still not see what specific information about their lives is being used

"People with low ratings will have slower internet speeds; restricted access to restaurants and the removal of the right to travel"

If their score reaches 600, they can take out a Just Spend loan of up to 5,000 yuan (around £565) to use to shop online, as long as it's on an Alibaba site. Reach 650 points, they may rent a car without leaving a deposit. They are also entitled to faster check-in at hotels and use of the VIP check-in at Beijing Capital International Airport. Those with more than 666 points can get a cash loan of up to 50,000 yuan (£5,700), obviously from Ant Financial Services. Get above 700 and they can apply for Singapore travel without supporting documents such as an employee letter. And at 750, they get fast-tracked application to a coveted pan-European Schengen visa. "I think the best way to understand the system is as a sort of bastard love child of a loyalty scheme," says Creemers.Higher scores have already become a status symbol

Friends matter, too. The fifth category is interpersonal relationships. What does their choice of online friends and their interactions say about the person being assessed? Sharing what Sesame Credit refers to as "positive energy" online, nice messages about the government or how well the country's economy is doing, will make your score go up.

For now, technically, participating in China's Citizen Scores is voluntary. But by 2020 it will be mandatory. The behaviour of every single citizen and legal person (which includes every company or other entity)in China will be rated and ranked, whether they like it or not.

That would create your Citizen Score and it would tell everyone whether or not you were trustworthy. Plus, your rating would be publicly ranked against that of the entire population and used to determine your eligibility for a mortgage or a job,

what you buy at the shops and online; where you are at any given time; who your friends are and how you interact with them; how many hours you spend watching content or playing video games; and what bills and taxes you pay (or not).

I call bullshit on the stigma and the culture and values behind it that rewards making

I am not a maker. In a framing and value system is about creating artifacts, specifically ones you can sell, I am a less valuable human

Making things is incredibly important

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This post is a bit stream of consciousness, and so I want to pose a question here. Which experience do you think is more educational:

the most valuable lessons we can give to students is not “how to build their identity on the web,” but how to selectively obscure it.

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Ron Kretsch more directly questioned Shulman’s Wizard of Oz by placing it side-by-side with a much earlier version by Campbell

if Shulman and I used a supposedly different process to create the same image, then by definition his work had to be substantially different from mine

I received 575 words about copyright in 10 contradictory bullet points. I started to see more press and more publicity. Photographs from the gallery’s opening,

Simply put: I hate when my phone rings. And I’m not alone. Digital sociality practices and networked publics moved increasingly towards asynchronous mediated communications, rather than the interruptive, immediate demands of telephones. Last night, as I tried to record the video for this post, my stepmother called. Twice. I rest my case? ;)

Part of making those contributions a conversation is connecting: