The Department of Homeland Security worked with the University of Alabama at Birmingham to design methods for assigning “risk scores” to potential pro-terrorists accounts on social media.

• “Night Fury”, the assigned name of the project, looked to automate the identification process and document performance measures and metrics.

🇨🇳 China uses a ‘social credit’ system rating its citizens on financial creditworthiness, tracks compliance and legal violations, and more.

• While Night Fury was canned in 2019, it shows that the DHS is looking at ways to better track and monitor US citizens similar to China’s social credit system.

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