Fears of data abuse as Chinese health code turns red for financial scandal protesters

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Bank customers whose deposits are frozen unable to join protests in Zhengzhou because their health QR codes turned red, declaring them a risk to public health. Factory owner escorted from train station by police to university library where he and 10 other victims refused to go home while the matter remained unresolved.

Since late May, hundreds of people have taken to the streets in China’s central Henan province, calling for authorities to ensure the return of their deposits that wereThe deposits at Yuzhou Xinminsheng Village Bank, Shangcai Huimin County Bank, Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank and New Oriental Country Bank of Kaifeng have been frozen since April 18, amid rising risk of recession for the world’s second-largest economy.

He decided to go anyway. Upon arriving at Zhengzhou railway station on Monday, he scanned the local health code, and again it showed red. He was immediately taken by local police to a university library, joining about 10 other bank deposit holders. Previously, there has been criticism that the health code was a mass surveillance tool that could be abused by authorities.

 

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