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    Why China’s COVID-tracking QR codes raise surveillance concerns

    by Ann Scott Tyson Dec 06, 2022 4 minutes

    Chinese police have extensive surveillance capabilities at their disposal – including a vast network of mounted cameras that canvass public places – as they pursue protesters who spoke out last month against China’s stringent COVID-19 policies. Yet even more ubiquitous than the cameras is a relatively new tracking tool: the individual digital health QR codes that live on the cellphones of nearly all residents.

    Designed for contact tracing, the health codes are key to enforcing China’s COVID-19 rules, and now constitute one of the most widely used population control technologies in the world. 

    Chinese who took to the streets to demand freedom from lockdowns and COVID-19 tests are acutely aware that the required health

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