Songpinganq
Songpinganq

@songpinganq

7 Tweets 8 reads May 28, 2023
China's surveillance state starts from digital ID
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Citizens must apply for a ID card, which contains information: name, gender, nationality, date of birth, address, ID number, and biometric information, such as photos, facial features, palm features, fingerprints, DNA.
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into airport and board your plane now.
This was in 2019 Beijing airport
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into the train station and take your train now.
This was in 2018 Shanghai train station.
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into the coach station and take your bus now.
This was in 2019, in a coach station of Yunnan province.
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to check in hotel now and the machine is linked to police station.
If you are on the blacklist of #SocialCreditSystem, you cannot stay at any starred hotel.
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In China, facial (digital ID) is mandatory to receive your pension and health insurance now.
A care worker in a care home scanning the faces of elderly people, which would then allow them to access their pension and health insurance.
Sorry. I missed ''recognition''

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