#FreeCovidTest #HealthCode #SocialCreditSystem #FailedState
HK Government appointed testing facility BGI accused of patent infringement; District councilor warns: samples collected could still be tested by China affiliated labs
Last month, the HKSAR government appointed 3 companies to take charge of a city-wide Coronavirus nucleic acid test in Hong Kong, of which, two of them (#KingMed and #Hybribio) are closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party, while the remaining one, BGI Group was recently sanctioned by the US government for facilitating mandatory gene tests in Xinjiang.
The 3 testing labs that the SAR government has procured their services are also China-affiliated, leaving the Hong Kong people no other option but to go against it.
To make matters worse, an international bio-tech company filed a complaint in the high court against BGI last Friday (August 14) for a patent infringement and demanded compensation.
Separately, Roy Tam Hoi-pong, Tsuen Wan District Councilor, posted an alert on his Facebook page in an attempt to warn residents against the #FreeCovidTest offered by the government.
Tam wrote on his Facebook that the Nasopharyngeal swab sampling kit distributed via HK based Yan Chai Hospital in Tsuen Wan came actually from one of the appointed testing lab, Sunrise Diagnostics Centre, which was established by BGI.
Tam pointed out that it is highly unsafe to assume that Nasopharyngeal samples collected via local hospital will remain in Hong Kong and be tested in Hong Kong.
Sources: Apple Daily; Roy Tam's Facebook #Aug17
https://www.facebook.com/359825757405314/posts/3147711291950066/
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20200817/YOBYBBRSIBHEBDCZAD4QQYACCU/
HK Government appointed testing facility BGI accused of patent infringement; District councilor warns: samples collected could still be tested by China affiliated labs
Last month, the HKSAR government appointed 3 companies to take charge of a city-wide Coronavirus nucleic acid test in Hong Kong, of which, two of them (#KingMed and #Hybribio) are closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party, while the remaining one, BGI Group was recently sanctioned by the US government for facilitating mandatory gene tests in Xinjiang.
The 3 testing labs that the SAR government has procured their services are also China-affiliated, leaving the Hong Kong people no other option but to go against it.
To make matters worse, an international bio-tech company filed a complaint in the high court against BGI last Friday (August 14) for a patent infringement and demanded compensation.
Separately, Roy Tam Hoi-pong, Tsuen Wan District Councilor, posted an alert on his Facebook page in an attempt to warn residents against the #FreeCovidTest offered by the government.
Tam wrote on his Facebook that the Nasopharyngeal swab sampling kit distributed via HK based Yan Chai Hospital in Tsuen Wan came actually from one of the appointed testing lab, Sunrise Diagnostics Centre, which was established by BGI.
Tam pointed out that it is highly unsafe to assume that Nasopharyngeal samples collected via local hospital will remain in Hong Kong and be tested in Hong Kong.
Sources: Apple Daily; Roy Tam's Facebook #Aug17
https://www.facebook.com/359825757405314/posts/3147711291950066/
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20200817/YOBYBBRSIBHEBDCZAD4QQYACCU/
#SocialCreditSystem #MassSurveillance #HealthCode
#JoshuaWong: Health Code is an eHandcuff, a path to CCP's Social Credit System
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#JoshuaWong: Health Code is an eHandcuff, a path to CCP's Social Credit System
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#SocialCreditSystem #MassSurveillance #HealthCode
#JoshuaWong: Health Code is an eHandcuff, a path to CCP's Social Credit System
Recently in Hong Kong, pro-China newspapers and Beijing royalists have been ferociously pushing for the implementation of Health Code in eateries and shopping centers. They even blustered of taking on the same system straightly from Mainland China.
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong criticized on his Facebook that Health Code is effectively no difference than an "eHandCuff". He called it a means for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to tighten their grip on Hong Kong, and pave way for Social Credit System and masd surveillance.
Wong pointed out that there is no scientific evidence showing Health Code is useful in epidemic prevention, as health experts reiterated.
Given that coronavirus has an incubation period, negative test result at one point of time does not mean that there is no risk of infection in the future. That is to say, implementing health code, could actually deceive citizens to believing that they are safe to commute, which inadvertently, would speed up the spread of Coronavirus.
Wong further elaborated that Health Code was implemented in China as an integral element to #NationalSurveillance. A source, claiming responsible for data management of Health Code in Hang Zhou said, “once the health code is activated, its database will start running, examining and analyzing across all available data-sets relevant to the user, including location data on Alipay and the shop the user frequented.”
In Wong’s opinion, Health Code is just a step away from a big data enabled “point-to-point” or “people-to-people” surveillance system, not only monitoring citizen’s daily routine, but also confining their mobility by restricting how they travel and where to go. The real function of Health Code is like an electronic handcuff.
Source: Stand News #Aug18 #FailedState #CCP #HangZhou
#JoshuaWong: Health Code is an eHandcuff, a path to CCP's Social Credit System
Recently in Hong Kong, pro-China newspapers and Beijing royalists have been ferociously pushing for the implementation of Health Code in eateries and shopping centers. They even blustered of taking on the same system straightly from Mainland China.
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong criticized on his Facebook that Health Code is effectively no difference than an "eHandCuff". He called it a means for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to tighten their grip on Hong Kong, and pave way for Social Credit System and masd surveillance.
Wong pointed out that there is no scientific evidence showing Health Code is useful in epidemic prevention, as health experts reiterated.
Given that coronavirus has an incubation period, negative test result at one point of time does not mean that there is no risk of infection in the future. That is to say, implementing health code, could actually deceive citizens to believing that they are safe to commute, which inadvertently, would speed up the spread of Coronavirus.
Wong further elaborated that Health Code was implemented in China as an integral element to #NationalSurveillance. A source, claiming responsible for data management of Health Code in Hang Zhou said, “once the health code is activated, its database will start running, examining and analyzing across all available data-sets relevant to the user, including location data on Alipay and the shop the user frequented.”
In Wong’s opinion, Health Code is just a step away from a big data enabled “point-to-point” or “people-to-people” surveillance system, not only monitoring citizen’s daily routine, but also confining their mobility by restricting how they travel and where to go. The real function of Health Code is like an electronic handcuff.
Source: Stand News #Aug18 #FailedState #CCP #HangZhou
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#Poll #HealthCode
Public opinion: a large majority of 76% Hong Kong citizens reject “Health Code”
Source: Stand News #Aug21
#MassSurvelliance #CCPControl #SocialCreditSystem
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24410
Public opinion: a large majority of 76% Hong Kong citizens reject “Health Code”
Source: Stand News #Aug21
#MassSurvelliance #CCPControl #SocialCreditSystem
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Public opinion: a large majority of 76% Hong Kong citizens reject “Health Code”
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (#HKPORI) conducted an online poll “We Hongkonger Survey” from August 17 to 20, collecting citizens’ view on the government’s proposal to introduce “Health Code” in Hong Kong as a screening mechanism for only the “healthy one” to enter eateries, shopping malls and other public places.
Among 23,000 respondents, a large majority of 76% rejected the proposal while only 15% showed support and 8% claimed neutrL.
Analyzing based on respondents claimed political orientation, 96% of pro-democracy respondents (sample size: 21,345) rejected the proposal, 1% supported while 3% were neutral. Among the remaining sample of 1,700 non-democracy supporters (including pro-establishments, the moderates, and those without political orientation, apolitical and not belong to any political camp), over half of them (55%) rejected the proposal while 29% supported and 13% claimed neutral.
Source: Stand News #Aug21 #MassSurvelliance #CCPControl #SocialCreditSystem
Public opinion: a large majority of 76% Hong Kong citizens reject “Health Code”
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (#HKPORI) conducted an online poll “We Hongkonger Survey” from August 17 to 20, collecting citizens’ view on the government’s proposal to introduce “Health Code” in Hong Kong as a screening mechanism for only the “healthy one” to enter eateries, shopping malls and other public places.
Among 23,000 respondents, a large majority of 76% rejected the proposal while only 15% showed support and 8% claimed neutrL.
Analyzing based on respondents claimed political orientation, 96% of pro-democracy respondents (sample size: 21,345) rejected the proposal, 1% supported while 3% were neutral. Among the remaining sample of 1,700 non-democracy supporters (including pro-establishments, the moderates, and those without political orientation, apolitical and not belong to any political camp), over half of them (55%) rejected the proposal while 29% supported and 13% claimed neutral.
Source: Stand News #Aug21 #MassSurvelliance #CCPControl #SocialCreditSystem
#HongKongChronicles #LastYearToday #MassSurveillance
What Next After the Fall of the Smart Lamposts at the East Kowloon March on #24Aug2019 ?
"One of the most representative moments of the #AntiELAB Movement is the fall of the smart lamposts in the East Kowloon March which were reported to have survillance function.
A tyrannical regime never ceases to monitor its people. After the plan with the lamposts was busted, they came up with the #HealthCode.
In addition to monitoring your personal health, they track your whereabouts. Whether you are infected or not, it is up to them to send you to a quarantine camp, or bar you from accessing the public space.
If we let the health code get by today, then the China-modelled "#SocialCreditSystem" will be in place next. By then, Hong Kong will become the new #Xinjiang.
Under the totalitarian rule, one has everything but freedom and human rights."
Text and Photo: Kevin Cheng Photography #Aug21
https://www.facebook.com/194035600634409/posts/3148723068498966/
What Next After the Fall of the Smart Lamposts at the East Kowloon March on #24Aug2019 ?
"One of the most representative moments of the #AntiELAB Movement is the fall of the smart lamposts in the East Kowloon March which were reported to have survillance function.
A tyrannical regime never ceases to monitor its people. After the plan with the lamposts was busted, they came up with the #HealthCode.
In addition to monitoring your personal health, they track your whereabouts. Whether you are infected or not, it is up to them to send you to a quarantine camp, or bar you from accessing the public space.
If we let the health code get by today, then the China-modelled "#SocialCreditSystem" will be in place next. By then, Hong Kong will become the new #Xinjiang.
Under the totalitarian rule, one has everything but freedom and human rights."
Text and Photo: Kevin Cheng Photography #Aug21
https://www.facebook.com/194035600634409/posts/3148723068498966/
#HealthCode #SocialCreditSystem #MassSurveillance
District Councillors: Universal COVID-19 Test is a tool for mass surveillance and suppression
Source: Stand News #Aug23
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District Councillors: Universal COVID-19 Test is a tool for mass surveillance and suppression
Source: Stand News #Aug23
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District Councillors: Universal COVID-19 Test is a tool for mass surveillance and suppression
The Hong Kong SAR Government announced that the voluntary universal COVID-19 Test will take place starting from 1 September, 2020. Many Hong Kong Citizens have been worried that their personal information might be collected and sent to China. Pro-democracy district councillors have been opposing this plan of the government.
In a street both held on 21 August, Tsuen Wan district councillor Roy Tam Hoi-pong, of New Democrats, pointed out that the Hong Kong government has appointed a China owned company, Sunrise Diagnostics Center (#SCD), for running the test. As a Chinese company, they are not qualified for Hong Kong standard and they do not have a valid license to handle the COVID-19 testing. Tam said the government's intention is to achieve its political agenda in the name of “public health concern”.
Tsuen Wan district councillor, Roy Pun Long-Chung, also stated that the government has borrowed several Caritas Community Centers as temporary testing centers. Many community centers are equipped with an elderly home. He worried that this would increase the infection risk of the elderly, “the Government has completely ignored their lives.” Pun has received many residents’ complaints and was told that many employers has requested their employees to provide COVID-test result before going to the work.
Sai Kung district councillor Gary Fan Kwok-wai criticised the government for failing to put public health as the first priority. Instead, the authorities has postponed the LegCo election and suppressed civilians' rights in the name of pandemic prevention. He described the universal COVID-19 test is a needle in a haystack. The test is not an effective pandemic prevention measure due to its high cost and low efficiency. Moreover, civilians worry that the government may collect and send their DNA sample to China.
Moreover, the “Health Code” might be transformed into a “social credit system” as in China for mass surveillance and further suppression of rights.
Fan said, “China has set many bad examples. With a health code, the code of a healthy reporter changed to yellow and red. (In the health code, yellow means medium risk and red means high risk.) Thus, he couldn’t go anywhere or get onto any transportation. The hotel became his prison.” He called for civilians to boycott the universal testing scheme.
Jeff Au, Strategy Director of the think tank Community Development Initiative (#CDI), said that the current privacy ordinance doesn’t include DNA and biometrics data and Privacy Commission for Personal Data Hong Kong should extend the ordinance to cover these areas. He has recommended the establishment of an independent committee to monitor the testing procedure, technology management and laboratory operation.
Source: Stand News #Aug23
#RoyTam #RoyPun #GaryFan #JeffAu #NeoDemocrats
District Councillors: Universal COVID-19 Test is a tool for mass surveillance and suppression
The Hong Kong SAR Government announced that the voluntary universal COVID-19 Test will take place starting from 1 September, 2020. Many Hong Kong Citizens have been worried that their personal information might be collected and sent to China. Pro-democracy district councillors have been opposing this plan of the government.
In a street both held on 21 August, Tsuen Wan district councillor Roy Tam Hoi-pong, of New Democrats, pointed out that the Hong Kong government has appointed a China owned company, Sunrise Diagnostics Center (#SCD), for running the test. As a Chinese company, they are not qualified for Hong Kong standard and they do not have a valid license to handle the COVID-19 testing. Tam said the government's intention is to achieve its political agenda in the name of “public health concern”.
Tsuen Wan district councillor, Roy Pun Long-Chung, also stated that the government has borrowed several Caritas Community Centers as temporary testing centers. Many community centers are equipped with an elderly home. He worried that this would increase the infection risk of the elderly, “the Government has completely ignored their lives.” Pun has received many residents’ complaints and was told that many employers has requested their employees to provide COVID-test result before going to the work.
Sai Kung district councillor Gary Fan Kwok-wai criticised the government for failing to put public health as the first priority. Instead, the authorities has postponed the LegCo election and suppressed civilians' rights in the name of pandemic prevention. He described the universal COVID-19 test is a needle in a haystack. The test is not an effective pandemic prevention measure due to its high cost and low efficiency. Moreover, civilians worry that the government may collect and send their DNA sample to China.
Moreover, the “Health Code” might be transformed into a “social credit system” as in China for mass surveillance and further suppression of rights.
Fan said, “China has set many bad examples. With a health code, the code of a healthy reporter changed to yellow and red. (In the health code, yellow means medium risk and red means high risk.) Thus, he couldn’t go anywhere or get onto any transportation. The hotel became his prison.” He called for civilians to boycott the universal testing scheme.
Jeff Au, Strategy Director of the think tank Community Development Initiative (#CDI), said that the current privacy ordinance doesn’t include DNA and biometrics data and Privacy Commission for Personal Data Hong Kong should extend the ordinance to cover these areas. He has recommended the establishment of an independent committee to monitor the testing procedure, technology management and laboratory operation.
Source: Stand News #Aug23
#RoyTam #RoyPun #GaryFan #JeffAu #NeoDemocrats
#Newspaper
AC2 Canteen newly installed thermometer has facial recognition function, and raises concerns for safety and privacy
(18 Aug) AC2 Canteen reopened on 13 Aug, and has thermometer installed at the entrance, to check the body temperature of visitors.
Different from the other thermometers in the campus, this thermometer checks and indicates visitors’ body temperature by taking photos. When the thermometer is in operation, the monitor displays the below message, ‘Welcome, face recognising.’ as it is testing body temperature. After temperature checking is completed, the message ‘Permission to the access.’ is shown. In addition, the hardware setting, ie height and distance of thermometer, is fixed. Thus it might not effectively check the temperature of people of various heights and distance. People who have meal in the canteen expressed the inconvenience of not having any indication of where to stand or distance to keep for such temperature checking.
Thermometer from SenseTime, a Chinese enterprise with multiple projects with Chinese government
Our journalists investigated and reported that such thermometer is manufactured by SenseTime. And products in the same same series can be coupled with its door lock system.
SenseTime is an Artificial intelligence startup company established by Prof Tang Xiaoou and his team in the CUHK School of Engineering.
The Company was founded in Beijing at the end of 2014, with full name ‘SenseTime Group Limited’. Its business involves graphical processing, facial recognition, auto-pilot, augmented reality, deep learning, and big data analysis, etc.
SenseTime is also a well known Chinese IT enterprise, and has consistently supported and worked with the government on the social credit / surveillance system in China. Surveillance examples include banning smoking in Metro, identifying people who violate traffic rules or have outstanding loans, etc. The US government has blacklisted this corporation under Export Administration Regulations. Unless endorsed by the US government, the enterprises on this Entity List are forbidden from trading with any US enterprise.
In some cities in China, the metro stations have such facial recognition terminals installed at the metro entrances, to assist passengers to use metro service. Such service is dubbed as the ‘metro Face credit’ and with aim to reduce service time compared with using ordinary metro cards.
Resources:
https://www.hk01.com/社區專題/388516/內地-人臉識別-漸普及-帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車-驗證僅需10秒
https://www.it-square.hk/archives/11979
https://www.sensetime.com/cn/product-detail?categoryId=132
#CityUniversity #CityU #CityBroadcastingChannel #HongKongSnitchingUniversity #TheMostInternationalisedUniversity
Source: City Broadcasting Channel
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#AC2 #CityU #Surveillance #BigData #SocialCreditSystem #CUHK #metro #SenseTime #TangXiaoou #Epidemic #Thermometer #FacialRecognition
AC2 Canteen newly installed thermometer has facial recognition function, and raises concerns for safety and privacy
(18 Aug) AC2 Canteen reopened on 13 Aug, and has thermometer installed at the entrance, to check the body temperature of visitors.
Different from the other thermometers in the campus, this thermometer checks and indicates visitors’ body temperature by taking photos. When the thermometer is in operation, the monitor displays the below message, ‘Welcome, face recognising.’ as it is testing body temperature. After temperature checking is completed, the message ‘Permission to the access.’ is shown. In addition, the hardware setting, ie height and distance of thermometer, is fixed. Thus it might not effectively check the temperature of people of various heights and distance. People who have meal in the canteen expressed the inconvenience of not having any indication of where to stand or distance to keep for such temperature checking.
Thermometer from SenseTime, a Chinese enterprise with multiple projects with Chinese government
Our journalists investigated and reported that such thermometer is manufactured by SenseTime. And products in the same same series can be coupled with its door lock system.
SenseTime is an Artificial intelligence startup company established by Prof Tang Xiaoou and his team in the CUHK School of Engineering.
The Company was founded in Beijing at the end of 2014, with full name ‘SenseTime Group Limited’. Its business involves graphical processing, facial recognition, auto-pilot, augmented reality, deep learning, and big data analysis, etc.
SenseTime is also a well known Chinese IT enterprise, and has consistently supported and worked with the government on the social credit / surveillance system in China. Surveillance examples include banning smoking in Metro, identifying people who violate traffic rules or have outstanding loans, etc. The US government has blacklisted this corporation under Export Administration Regulations. Unless endorsed by the US government, the enterprises on this Entity List are forbidden from trading with any US enterprise.
In some cities in China, the metro stations have such facial recognition terminals installed at the metro entrances, to assist passengers to use metro service. Such service is dubbed as the ‘metro Face credit’ and with aim to reduce service time compared with using ordinary metro cards.
Resources:
https://www.hk01.com/社區專題/388516/內地-人臉識別-漸普及-帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車-驗證僅需10秒
https://www.it-square.hk/archives/11979
https://www.sensetime.com/cn/product-detail?categoryId=132
#CityUniversity #CityU #CityBroadcastingChannel #HongKongSnitchingUniversity #TheMostInternationalisedUniversity
Source: City Broadcasting Channel
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#AC2 #CityU #Surveillance #BigData #SocialCreditSystem #CUHK #metro #SenseTime #TangXiaoou #Epidemic #Thermometer #FacialRecognition
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內地「人臉識別」漸普及 帶個頭出街便可吃飯坐車 驗證僅需10秒
在內地，出門沒帶錢或信用卡，你都可以暢通無阻，皆因內地近年大力發展人工智能（AI）產業，以人臉識別技術，靠「刷臉」就能買到車票、乘地鐵，以至到商店購物，便利大眾生活。連年輕人愛用的拍照手機程式，都應用了人臉識別，這個技術在日常中可謂無孔不入。隨技術而來的，是上千萬計的鏡頭在公眾地方湧現。令人擔心，當局會利用技術監控人民一舉一動，私隱盡失，活現著名小說《一九八四》中「老大哥正看着你」的世界。記者：梁爽爽 編輯：張衍禎 攝影：張衍禎
#MassSurveillance
In the era of surveillance, face-recognising cameras intrude ou rlives. Have you wondered, how close are we to mass surveillance?
This photo was taken at Tai Po Complex in Hong Kong. Hikvision cameras are placed in the entrances and exits to monitor the temperature of passersby.
The US government had blacklisted this company earlier because it worked with the CCP to monitor minorities in Xinjiang with its face recognising technology.
In this sick city, we are only one step away from the digital prison.
Source: Siu-kin Wong Facebook #Sept5
#Hikvision #FailedState #SocialCreditSystem #CCPControl
In the era of surveillance, face-recognising cameras intrude ou rlives. Have you wondered, how close are we to mass surveillance?
This photo was taken at Tai Po Complex in Hong Kong. Hikvision cameras are placed in the entrances and exits to monitor the temperature of passersby.
The US government had blacklisted this company earlier because it worked with the CCP to monitor minorities in Xinjiang with its face recognising technology.
In this sick city, we are only one step away from the digital prison.
Source: Siu-kin Wong Facebook #Sept5
#Hikvision #FailedState #SocialCreditSystem #CCPControl