Littlejohn has previously warned that “the digital platform used by Vaccine Passports can provide the same totalitarian functionality as used by the Chinese ‘Social Credit System.’"
Electronic records allow the Chinese government to restrict the activities of its citizens based on a “social credit score.” People lose points for transgressions including dissenting speech. Human rights advocate Reggie Littlejohn has noted that this score is integrated into “a surveillance system that gives the CCP total control over every person in the nation.”
Littlejohn noted that those with a high score are able to “participate ‘freely’ in society – but they are not really free,” whereas people “with a low score cannot travel, borrow money, may be fired from their jobs, and may be unable to get their children into school.”
After recent COVID-19 outbreaks, some Chinese provinces have asked that travel plans be registered online beforehand, Reuters reported.
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