How do you mean remote payments for utilities. Buying something in Russia from a foreign country or the other way around ? Or just remote payments through Russia ?
Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months agoYandex is a good example, VK - I’m not certain of that.
Anyway, what I meant is that such kind of social rating needs to source data from somewhere. That means integration with quite a lot of systems built for the Russian state, which often suck a lot. It’s normal that half the time remote payments for utilities don’t work, for example.
I mean, yeah, they can. But if it’s going to be some nation-wide system for the government, the bureaucracy will practically kill this.
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I meant - submitting water counters’ data and such via their website and paying there. It’s not about payments themselves.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Comparing run of the mill government services with something as advantageous as a social credit app is not apples to apples. It’s not like they assign utility administrators to work for GRU hacking units. The people that build this tool will be highly paid technical experts. And there is no shortage of them in Russia. It’s definitely not 100% but there’s a decent chance they can cobble together a working system that tracks social scores for the vast majority of Russian citizens.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Social scores would logically depend on the data sourced from things working as I described.
But you may be right, of course.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Ah I see what you mean(t). You would have to have working systems with clean-enough data in the first place to integrate with in order to develop a system like this. Not just the expertise to develop it.