QR codes and China: Human Race tracking tools

[MikePal]

Headline : China's Xi Jinping is pushing for a global Covid QR code

Chinese President Xi Jinping is pushing for a global Covid-19 tracking system using QR codes, to help fast-track international travel and business during the coronavirus pandemic.

China mandated the widespread use of QR-based health certificates earlier this year. The system, which uses an electronic barcode to store a person's travel and health history, has been credited with helping to curb the spread of the virus.

As China encourages people to return to work despite the coronavirus outbreak, it has begun a bold mass experiment in using data to regulate citizens’ lives — by requiring them to use software on their smartphones that dictates whether they should be quarantined or allowed into subways, malls and other public spaces.

But a New York Times analysis of the software’s code found that the system does more than decide in real time whether someone poses a contagion risk. It also appears to share information with the police, setting a template for new forms of automated social control that could persist long after the epidemic subsides.

The Times’s analysis found that as soon as a user grants the software access to personal data, a piece of the program labeled “reportInfoAndLocationToPolice” sends the person’s location, city name and an identifying code number to a server. The software does not make clear to users its connection to the police. But according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency and an official police social media account, law enforcement authorities were a crucial partner in the system’s development.

from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/b...veillance.html

Is the general public willing to give up their privacy...or blindly unaware of the consequences?

The main problem of any international coronavirus app would be maintaining the privacy of the data, said Raina MacIntyre, head of the Biosecurity Research Program at the University of New South Wales' Kirby Institute.
MacIntyre suggested that a central database of information managed by the World Health Organization or a United Nations agency might be the least controversial way of creating a Covid tracking app.
"(But) will individuals consent to another government that isn't their own government accessing their data? That may be the price to pay for travel," she said.

from... https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/asia/...hnk/index.html

[GloHole]

The vax pass is the beginning of all that. Check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xskTZHJ7MNA

[Birdbuff]

We are being tracked online always.

[Gilroy]

We are being tracked online always.

I think most all of us voluntarily gave up our freedoms when we joined in social media, nothing is sacred. The Chinese government in order to survive will need to continue full time surveillance on its citizens and they seem pretty happy as their standard of living has improved so much over the years. Even on this forum certain folks have no hesitation to post personal identifiers to cause harm in order to get one over on the next guy, its fortunate the next guy did not respond in kind and had more manners. If you joined Facebook and similar platforms over the years, you pretty well caused your own problems.

[Birdbuff]

I think most all of us voluntarily gave up our freedoms when we joined in social media, nothing is sacred. The Chinese government in order to survive will need to continue full time surveillance on its citizens and they seem pretty happy as their standard of living has improved so much over the years. Even on this forum certain folks have no hesitation to post personal identifiers to cause harm in order to get one over on the next guy, its fortunate the next guy did not respond in kind and had more manners. If you joined Facebook and similar platforms over the years, you pretty well caused your own problems.

Pretty much sums it up. Social media is the new form of entertainment. It’s highly addictive and according to some experts, it’s dangerous for certain age groups. But with both parents needing to work to uphold their glamorous lifestyles they can’t parent 100% so they give their kids a tablet and no supervision. What’s the worst that can happen?

So really this news of an international QR code to track the masses has already been in the works. I’m sure stored somewhere is massive amounts of data pertaining to each online individuals digital footprint. Yay technology!

[MikePal]

So really this news of an international QR code to track the masses has already been in the works. I’m sure stored somewhere is massive amounts of data pertaining to each online individuals digital footprint. Yay technology!

You have to broaden the implication of this..it goes way beyond watching your FB posts or reading your Tweets..what the article is talking about is using collected 'active' data to monitor things like your health status ie: if you're supposed to be 'voluntary' isolation or home quarantine and they see you're at the Movies they sent out the Police to detain you.

Your Data, and not specifically health data, will be collected on every citizen, by the Government, voluntarily every time you swipe your QR Code.

[glen]

I think it’s great. They can notify you of when to take a dump.

[Gilroy]

Well there are a few side benefits to technology, the tracking has put a lot of criminals in jail and DNA for crimes like murder where they in the past would have beat the system.

[glen]

Using dna left at a crime scene is completely different then tracking people all the time.
Overlords. Masters. Rulers.

It’s funny in the time of trying to make everyone equal.
No one is trying to make rulers and peasants more equal.
We’re both not born on this planet as a human being?
Why one gets to rule over the other.
Tell me why. I really want to know.

[fratri]

Using dna left at a crime scene is completely different then tracking people all the time.
Overlords. Masters. Rulers.

It’s funny in the time of trying to make everyone equal.
No one is trying to make rulers and peasants more equal.
We’re both not born on this planet as a human being?
Why one gets to rule over the other.
Tell me why. I really want to know.

Money..