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Feb 22 7 tweets 3 min read
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.
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Feb 16
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Do NOT follow China's steps!
It's a nightmare.

15 MINUTE CITIES in 🇨🇳 China. Each neighborhood zone is separated by a fence with barbed wire. There are 2 to 4 Gates per zone. If you want to leave your zone you will need your QR code/Covid passport and a face scan.
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Feb 12
@AndrewKnack This is what China's 15 Minutes cities looks like

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One neighborhood , with hundreds apartment buildings and tens of thousands people , have only few exits, where you need to scan your QR code COVID passport and your face to get in or out.

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There are dozens of restaurants, barbershops, fruit shops, grocery stores...etc in this neighborhood, within 15 Minutes walk. But you can only get in or out of it throw the few exits by scanning your QR code COVID passport.
@AndrewKnack 3/

Be careful what you wish for!
Just one day, Chinese government uses razor wire fence and wall to turn this neighborhood into a giant prison, where you need to show your QR code COVID passport at every gate.

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Feb 12
JUST IN -- Police in China's Hainan Province are confiscating people's e-bikes.

Chinese government is encouraging people to buy less e-bikes and buy more EVs. Because in their minds e-bikes make China looks cheap,like a third world country.
China is confiscating its citizens's millions e-bikes.
🇨🇳 China

Police hunting people down to confiscate their e-bikes
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🇨🇳 Jinan city.

Here you need to scan your face and a QR code with your COVID passport to get into the public toilet.

China's surveillance state has become increasingly widespread and grown in sophistication last 3 years, in name of ''stop COVID from spreading''

If your QR code is yellow or red, immediately an alarm goes off. Then security guards will hunt you down and hand you over to authority... you will be locked up in your home or a quarantine camp
🇨🇳 Suqian city.

Here you need to scan your face and verify your QR code COVID passport to get into the farmers (wet) market, to buy your food.
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