There is more than one tracking app in China.
To enter many offices, restaurants, parks or malls in China nowadays, people must show their status on an app that determines whether they are a coronavirus threat.A green light lets you in anywhere. A yellow light could send you into home confinement. The dreaded red light throws a person into a strict two-week quarantine at a hotel.
“We are in a special context with this epidemic, so divulging my movements doesn’t bother me,” said Debora Lu, a 30-year-old Shanghai resident.An app by the State Council, China’s cabinet, uses GPS locations shared by telecommunications companies — the kind of data sharing that might not be permissible in Western democracies.
The app appears to have had some glitches. The health code of many foreigners in China inexplicably turned yellow one day in April. When an AFP reporter encountered a similar issue more recently, the app turned green again after he turned it off and on several times.The capital Beijing has a “Health Kit” program that displays whether people have taken a train or plane, passed a road checkpoint into the city or have been tested for the virus.
A driver scans a QR code to register information before entering a community in the border city of Suifenhe, in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province. AFP/STR If approved, the Swiss app will be optional and no personal data or location information will be used, the government says.
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