SHANGHAI - China's health tracking QR codes, which have played a key part in the country's successful containment of the coronavirus, now look set to play a much broader role in daily life as local au
SHANGHAI - China's health tracking QR codes, which have played a key part in the country's successful containment of the coronavirus, now look set to play a much broader role in daily life as local authorities dream up new uses for the technology.
The codes had so far met with little public resistance, seen as a necessary tool to get the economy back up on its feet again. That was seen as far too invasive, setting off a firestorm of criticism from thousands of users on Twitter-like Weibo and fuelling debate about privacy and data security - a debate that comes just as China is poised to enshrine individuals' rights to privacy and personal data for the first time as part of the country's first civil code.
Other local authorities, while excited by the potential to expand the use of the health codes, have not gone as far as Hangzhou. On one hand, the new rights which will enable individuals to take action if data is leaked are set to be approved after deliberations by China's annual meeting of parliament which began on Friday.
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