Eyes in the Sky: How to Quantify Your Life

China has a notorious (yet, contrary to the popular opinion, not quite deployed) system that combines total surveillance, AI-based facial recognition, and a complex system of social credit that looks like an episode of Black Mirror came to life. Still, as frightening as it seems, is this system actually that scary? Or is it worse than it looks? Plus, China isn’t the only country out there to use systems like that. The United States of America have their own social credits, total surveillance, and other dystopian feats that would have been no less frightening had they been as obvious as those in China.