Well, the explicitly obscure social credit system “terrorism watch list” keeps you from flying with (almost) no recourse. I’m pretty sure it will be privatized. And it’s only a matter of time before your arrest record will affect your ability to attend a concert or sporting event — this is already the case in the UK.

And it's been the subject of much criticism, such as yours, although none have really stuck.

I wonder if the same can be said within China?

What do you mean "stuck"? That the news isn't writing articles about it daily?

It's opaque workings still concern civil libertarians tremendously. There's 50,000 on the list. That seems excesive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_cr...

But it affects a possibility of getting a job or renting an apartment. I'm afraid there is a trend of trying to use the credit rating for more and more...

Yet.

> Among the complaints about the No Fly List is the use of credit reports in calculating the risk score. In response to the controversy, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials said in 2005 that they would not use credit scores to determine passengers' risk score and that they would comply with all rights guaranteed by the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution.

It used to be a feature; they turned it off (reportedly). How hard would it be for them to silently re-enable it? How hard would it be to factor in facet Y which correlates with facet X (credit score)?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_...

Not today— it doesn’t seem like a terrible stretch to imagine that it could in a decade or two though.

It would be possible for restaurant and hotel booking sites to check your Yelp reviews and allow restaurants or hotels to bar reservations for people who leave bad reviews.

Those “share” buttons on web sites allow the big aggregators to connect accounts on various sites.