{"id":16707,"date":"2020-04-01T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/01\/chinas-coronavirus-health-code-apps-raise-concerns-over-privacy"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:35:52","slug":"chinas-coronavirus-health-code-apps-raise-concerns-over-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16707","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s coronavirus health code apps raise concerns over privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apps, which allow people to move around after lockdown, have become an integral part of Chinese authorities\u2019 management of citizens<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As millions of people in China emerge from weeks of lockdown, their freedom of movement is largely dependent on phone apps.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chealth code\u201d service \u2013 run on the ubiquitous platforms Alipay and WeChat and developed for the Chinese government \u2013 give users colour-coded designations based on their health status and travel history, and a QR code that can be scanned by authorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/01\/chinas-coronavirus-health-code-apps-raise-concerns-over-privacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apps, which allow people to move around after lockdown, have become an integral part of Chinese authorities\u2019 management of citizensCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs millions of people in China emerge from weeks of lockdown,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,299,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions\/16708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}