Tracked location and kept records of phone calls, and determined ability to travel. Which China will keep doing with other tech, for other reasons
China discontinued operation of its COVID tracking app on Monday as part of the Middle Kingdom's transition away from a dynamic zero-COVID strategy.from the state-run Communications Itinerary Card's Weixin – otherwise known as the domestic version of WeChat – the service closed when the clock struck midnight into Tuesday morning.
Chinese residents were required to display the app on their phones before entering venues or moving between provinces as proof that they were free of COVID risk. The app shows a color – green, yellow or red – depending on a user's assessed risk. Green was safe and allowed folks to move freely, yellow meant the user should isolate as they could be a risk, and red indicated a positive COVID test or likely exposure.
If the app showed red or yellow screens, citizens were denied domestic travel or barred from public spaces like shopping malls or commercial buildings. The app was a constant companion to those in China for almost two years and nine months. It determined the user's risk by tracking phone signals and location information. The data it collected included encrypted mobile phone numbers, travel details over the past two weeks and any domestic city that the user was in for more than four hours.
That status was set, in part, by requiring citizens to scan QR codes located on many premises and venues.of those QR codes being removed from public spaces began to appear across Chinese social media.The app was launched in early 2020 by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology in conjunction with telecom companies China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, all of which are state-run.at the time of the app's retirement.
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