Govt's proposed health-monitoring app sparks anger in China

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It monitors users' smoking, drinking, sleeping habits and ranks them on a 100-point scale. FMTNews App HealthMonitor China

BEIJING: A Chinese local government’s proposal for a post-coronavirus health app that ranks citizens based on their smoking, drinking, exercise and sleep habits has sparked fury online over privacy concerns.

But the health commission in the eastern city of 10 million people is now considering rolling out an app that looks much deeper into the health of citizens. For example, drinking a glass of white wine could set your score back by 1.5 points, while sleeping for seven hours could improve it by one point.

“The municipal health commission should grasp the opportunity to deepen the use of health codes… to ensure the full completion of various municipal health systems,” health commission member Sun Yongrong was quoted as saying.Big data-powered health apps developed by local governments in collaboration with internet firms Alibaba and Tencent have become part of the fabric of life in post-coronavirus China.

“In the case of Covid I think people willingly participated, but it’s another story if the government wants to make it the ‘new normal’,” he told AFP.

 

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