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Report Stirs Fear That China Might Make Digital Health Tracker Permanent

By Shai Oster

· 2020-05-26T07:48:51+00:00 · Source: The Wall Street Journal

A proposal by a local government to make China’s Covid-19 health tracking software permanent was met with widespread condemnation online, reflective of growing awareness of online privacy in China. The city of Hangzhou, the headquarters of tech giant Alibaba, suggested turning the health tracker app, which assigns a color code to individuals based on their risk of exposure or illness, into...

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