#survaillance

How it will be:

When black mirror episodes are used as product roadmap.

>To use the app, users **must** **sign up with their real names and cellphone numbers**, creating a trail since all phones in China must be **registered** **to** a **national ID** card number.

>Use of the app in China is **not** exactly **voluntary**. The Communist Party has issued directives to its members to download the app, as have many workplaces.

>Starting this month, about 10,000 **reporters** and editors in Beijing will take part in a pilot test that is expected to extend nationwide, in which they **will be tested on their knowledge of Xi Jinping** Thought through the app.

>"Sometimes even when I'm very tired and have put my baby to sleep, I still **have to complete** my 'Study the Great Nation,' **otherwise my pay will be cut**," one disgruntled app user wrote on Weibo, the Chinese answer to Twitter. Another complained about **having to write a 2,000-word self-criticism because** they didn't earn **enough points** on the app.

>"What's clear is that while the CCP advertises 'Study the Great Nation' as a way for citizens to prove their loyalty and study their country, **the app's maintainers are studying them right back**," it wrote in its commentary.

Combine this with the already existing social credit system and consider that China is exporting its model to countries all over the world (for which they are building the infrastructure), mostly authoritarian countries in Africa with smart cities full of CCTV cameras that track people by their face and even gait.

And we thought the present was bad.

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The surveillance center that accumulates footage from cameras installed at front doors, in halls, and outside of apartment blocks. The first of such centers was launched in the Basmanny area of the Central Administrative District in Moscow. (Photo taken on April 13, 2007.)Photo: Anton Tushin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA