[vinayan3]

> It's not that the US won't have social credit scores... they just will be privatized and opaque.

We already have a social credit score and it's privatized now. It's background checks.

From the story:

> While she does not have a criminal record, her boyfriend does, she said, telling Motherboard it was “a white collar charge,” though she did not go into specifics.

I find it a bit odd to let private companies do background checks when this really seems more of a function of government where as a society we can have input and reform the process.