China is beginning to abuse the power of social control through a national digital system to combat COVID-19 and related applications. Services track the movements and the purchases of users, limiting their options for the management of the activities and not the diagnosis. The Financial Times has reported that.
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In contrast to other countries, the Chinese government used special applications to fight COVID-19. They were used in response to the disease’s zero tolerance policy. They gained the right to take some metric measures, such as data from multiple users, buys, knowledge of tests for COVID-19, vaccination status, etc. The green scheme means you can go everywhere, and the yellow that you need to pass the test, and the red which can go to self-isolation or quarantine.
Journalists claim that after two years of the pandemic, the services began to abuse the information received. Guo Rui said that after buying a cold medicine which requires a Chinese identity card, she had been denied access to public places the application changed her health status. A message appeared on the screen, with the prohibition on visiting public places and the requirement to take a COVID-19 test. The phone rang sharply after which the people dispersed around him.
Nevertheless, the best case was in Zhengzhou where the local government changed over one thousand peoples codes to red, preventing them from protesting small rural banks where their deposit could soon disappear as the banks are a fugitive branch. The interlocutor of the publication said that he couldn’t go to Zhengzhou because of a status change in the application. He was assigned the red status for no reason to come from abroad.
In addition, the Chinese government insists that anti-covid applications are purely for healthcare. In Zhengzhou, the local anti-corruption body on Wednesday sentenced five officials for changing codes without permission.
Since these data were recorded, the health authorities response quickly to the virus. One of the most striking examples of those patients was the identification of three patients in Beijing. Because of this, the authorities quarantined 9 785 people who had contact with them in three days and banned another 77,000 people from visiting public places.