Yes but a social security number is old technology. This is the ground work, the foundation for deploying a social credit system. Your credit score today is tied to your social security number but that’s an isolated system controlled by a few corporations. Imagine an electronic record that was designed to be updated and queried in real time, a unified record designed to be integrated into all parts of your life be it medical, financial, education, work, etc. Surely you’re familiar with the threat from grade school of something going on your “permanent record?” It’s like that but it doesn’t disappear when you leave school. It follows you around forever. Surely you can look at what countries like China have done with their own social credit system and feel a bit worried.