Chinese government begins to track some of its citizens through software that sorts individuals into color-coded categories corresponding to their health status and level of risk for COVID-19.
In this April 1, 2020, file photo, a passenger scans a QR code to get his green pass at a subway station in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.
“Unfortunately, as you might expect, there's not much transparency about why an individual might get a yellow or red score,” Albert Fox Cahn, Executive Director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told ABC News, “and this leads to a lot of possible abuses where political dissidents and other historically marginalized groups can be targeted for punitive quarantine measures just as a way to cut them off from public life.
Passengers wearing face masks to protect against the spread of new coronavirus use their smartphones scan a QR code to generate a health report outside of Hankou train station in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, April 8, 2020.Other countries, including South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, have developed similar tracking technology to monitor COVID-19 patients after recovery and track individuals with symptoms during their quarantine.
"No contact tracing app can be fully effective until there is widespread, free, and quick testing and equitable access to healthcare. These systems also can’t be effective if people don’t trust them. People will only trust these systems if they protect privacy, remain voluntary, and store data on an individual's device, not a centralized repository," ACLU surveillance and cybersecurity counsel Jennifer Granick said in a statement.
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