[New Tang Dynasty Beijing time July 14, 2021]Recently, the Chinese Communist Party launched a facial recognition camera to monitor residents’ actions in Ruili, Yunnan, which borders Myanmar, and collect basic information, claiming to curb the Chinese Communist pneumonia outbreak. However, foreign media questioned that this involves privacy issues. In addition, there are still new cases in Ruili City.
On July 13th, Agence France-Presse reported that surveillance was widely used by the CCP to monitor the epidemic, and the facial recognition camera was selected by the authorities in Ruili, Yunnan. This made mainland China the first to use a QR code system to record test results and track contacts. s country.
According to the report, China is one of the most heavily monitored countries in the world. In the past five years, the CCP has installed more than 200 million CCTV cameras to “cover all public places.”
Officials from Ruili City of the Communist Party of China said on Saturday (July 10) that with this new device, anyone who wants to enter or exit busy areas such as residential areas, supermarkets, and markets in Ruili City will have their faces scanned by cameras.
NTD reporters found out that on July 10, the official Weibo of the Propaganda Department of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China issued an announcement stating that the “one library, one yard, one platform” developed by Ruili City was used at traffic bays, residential communities, farmer’s markets, supermarkets, etc. Digital security facilities such as face recognition cameras, access control, and barriers were set up in key areas, and all personnel entering and exiting were scanned and swiped their faces. Then these basic information of residents will be entered into the “Dehong Anti-epidemic” system, thereby forming a basic population database with a community grid as the smallest management unit.
The aforementioned French media questioned that the CCP’s surveillance methods involve privacy issues, and pointed out that human rights organizations have criticized the CCP for using ubiquitous surveillance to suppress dissidents, ethnic minorities, etc. The mainland e-commerce giant Alibaba has also been accused of tracking people’s travels. Data on history and virus testing applications are shared with the police.
The report also doubted whether the CCP would shut down these monitoring systems when the epidemic was under control; the official did not specify how long the database will be kept.
Under such strict supervision by the CCP, there are still new epidemics in Yunnan.
According to the official report, from 0:00 to 24:00 on July 13th, 1 new local confirmed case (female, 36 years old, Myanmar nationality) in Yunnan Province was discovered during the nucleic acid test of key populations in Ruili City on July 13; There are 10 confirmed imported cases overseas. They have recently lived in Myanmar and entered the country from June 21 to July 12 through land ports. The nucleic acid test result was positive on July 13.
In addition, close contacts of the confirmed case Xiao Mou in Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, were searched. There were 10 people, 9 in Nanjing, and 1 in other places; 31 second-close contacts, 29 in Nanjing, and 2 in other places. . As of 1:30 am on July 13, 30,433 people in Nanjing had been sampled for nucleic acid.
(Reporter Li Jinfeng Comprehensive Report / Chief Editor: Li Quan)
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