Without a doubt, China is a tiny thermometer in the coronavirus problem. Not in vain, the disease erupted in Wuhan – the capital of Hubei province – between the months of November and December, until it became a star the worst pandemic in the world in recent decades, with the impact of large sums of money in Spain and Italy and resulting in the cancellation of each of the world's major offenses in technology and other sectors.
Now, the health warning about forced isolation in our countries has already been announced, the fact is that many media are trying to explain how to properly clean and disinfect our devices, which Samsung itself offers to do for free in its Service Center, and that is the smartphone is an integral part of the disease series -An unreliable carrier of viruses- as in control and content of progress of the disease.
In fact, we can tell from the New York Times that China has used it a controversial application for ordering the separation of settlements and controlling the movement of its inhabitants, an app that works no doubt to control the epidemic, but which has set some precedent, share endless personal information automatically by the police.
China tests an app that manages to manage its citizens and controls their entry into certain areas, based on the color code with red flags
This is how Alipay operates and its Health Code
The a priori should not look too bad, and it is there are countless apps that monitor our site to provide us with a variety of services, although in the context of an application being built between Ant Financial, which is a subsidiary of Alibaba, and the Local Government of Hangzhou, it seems your plan is sharing with the policethus establishing a dangerous precursor to default social control that could continue after the global epidemic is over.
To use the Alipay Health Code, just sign up using the antivirus payment service, and the app itself will give us color code that can be green, yellow or red depending on our health status Currently it is estimated, based on the places we visit, the mobility and the infection statistics.
The program has been used in over 200 cities in China, and continues its work without further explaining how the algorithm distinguishes each of us between red, yellow and green. Some users have been it is confused with their split orders, for many unwanted.
In addition, it is still unclear how this gateway is used exchanged information between Chinese authorities and the request, especially if this can happen if the app becomes legal, automatic arrest of those who fail marked margins.
The Times itself has analyze the system you find that once you have registered, it sends your location, city name and code to the police server under the label "ReportInfoAndLocationToPolice". According to some experts, the Chinese police chiefs have been key partners in the development of the program, and it is unclear how this data will be used in any case.
Very little specification, otherwise proof that the program is effective in dividing the population most dispersed, which has been confirmed by the Hangzhou Communist Party by its secretary Zhou Jiangyong, confirming the color code system "An integral practice in digital city management"
We know the Chinese state and its policy on networks, and this is not the first time they have implemented it Examining tools for important events such as the 2008 Olympics or the World World Expo which is then standard and they are never left.
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From Ant Financial they have come to the category of critics in networks that confirm that "Interaction between public and private bodies in the management of an epidemic is a common practice" in all markets and globally, but the fact is allegations that free espionage has returned well argued, because the objectives of the application are not defined.
He knows only that Traveling around Hangzhou without your Alipay Health Code is almost impossible for now, with the only possible statement from the developer used Big data Analyzing if a person is at risk of infection for some residents or not.
Also, at the time of registration personal information and user behavior details are requested
Curious when young, and certainly useful because Technology can help us in many ways in situations like this, it meets basic regulatory requirements as security protocols are not universal, although that is always the case responsible for everything and a simulation app that sends our post to the police has created not only privacy problems, but also serious errors in some cases.
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