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Covid-19: China pushes for QR Code based global travel system
In the G20 summit, Xi Jinping pushed QR codes which could be used to recognize “health certificates based on nucleic acid test result.
Human Rights advocates want that the codes could be used for “broader political monitoring and exclusion”. And the codes are based on a combination of big data and information submitted by the users themselves.
Chinese QR codes was developed by financial technology giant Ant Financial, and is available through its main app Alipay, but also on WeChat, which belongs to Alipay’s competitor Tencent.
Source: BBC #Nov23
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55039662
#China #G20Summit #QRcode #Covid19 #HealthCode #Privacy #BigData
Covid-19: China pushes for QR Code based global travel system
In the G20 summit, Xi Jinping pushed QR codes which could be used to recognize “health certificates based on nucleic acid test result.
Human Rights advocates want that the codes could be used for “broader political monitoring and exclusion”. And the codes are based on a combination of big data and information submitted by the users themselves.
Chinese QR codes was developed by financial technology giant Ant Financial, and is available through its main app Alipay, but also on WeChat, which belongs to Alipay’s competitor Tencent.
Source: BBC #Nov23
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55039662
#China #G20Summit #QRcode #Covid19 #HealthCode #Privacy #BigData