China Accused of Weaponizing Its Covid Tracker to Stifle Dissent

> he was on a train to Zhengzhou from a city without any documented COVID-19 cases when his health code turned from green to red. ... The protester was required to wait in a local library for 12 hours before being escorted out of the city, after which his health code suddenly turned green.

The sad thing is this was a completely obvious application/abuse of the technology, and there is very little standing in the way of other countries implementing the same system.

Once the precedent has been set that people need to carry around these apps with them to travel and enter buildings, all that's standing in the way of totalitarian control is a single software update.

While we might hope that democratic countries are consigning such infringements of our liberties to the past, we're actually more likely to make this mistake in the future because people assume that the exceptional measures were helpful last time. The difference is that next time, it will be a global system, I suspect:

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