China rolls out fresh data collection campaign to combat COVID-19

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China's local governments are ramping up surveillance efforts with new data collection campaigns to better trace residents' moves in public areas, ...

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"Some of these criteria are very broad, and when you use this criteria and feed it into the app, how accurate are they?"Liu Yuewen, who heads Yunnan province's department of public security's big data expert group, said individuals' privacy would be protected, and the data would be destroyed when efforts to control the epidemic end.

But Hu said he had not met face-to-face with the infected person, who was a friend, and they last spoke in November through a messaging app. Hu is now in quarantine at his home. Alipay deferred questions to various government departments who provide and operate the services, saying it does not have access to the related data.

 

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