Personal Scoring in the EU : Not quite Black Mirror yet, at least if you’re rich
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In October 2016, the British dystopian TV series Black Mirror aired Nosedive. In that episode, citizens use their cell phones to review each other on a 5-star scale after each social interaction and everyone’s average score is visible to everyone else. In such a world, any unpopular behavior or opinion leads to lower reviews and, from there, to social ruin. This work of fiction has since widely been used to illustrate what a centralized, permanent and public personal scoring system would (...)