Residents say China used health tracker for crowd control

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Angry bank customers who traveled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks have been stopped by a health app on their cellphone.

app, which displays a code indicating their health status, including possible exposure to COVID-19. A green code is required to use public transportation and to enter locations such as offices, restaurants and malls. But some depositors at the banks in central Henan province said their codes were turned red to stop them.

Thousands of people who had opened accounts with the six rural banks in Henan and Anhui provinces began trying to withdraw their savings after media reports that the head of the banks' parent company was on the run. The majority shareholder of several of the banks, Sun Zhenfu, was wanted by authorities for “serious financial crimes,” according to the official media outlet The Paper.

Unable to resolve the issue online, customers set out earlier this week to demand government action at the Henan province office of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou. But after arriving in the city, they found they couldn't go far. Liu, who did not go to Zhengzhou herself, said she tested the code change after others reported it in their shared group chat. After scanning the QR code from a photo someone had shared in the group, Liu found that her health code also turned red.

 

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Happened 9 days ago, has already been explained as a glitch in the online system and fixed. I'm always amazed by the superficiality of US outlets. But since their target is the average superficial american, good for them.

I wonder what billions of angry humans would do, if they were pushed too far?

It’s naive to believe that our government won’t do the same to us. Free the people by limiting government.

That's how the government controls you. I know after a few years of this happening the US it's kinda shocking for you to realize the truth. But, there it is.

That's exactly what will happen here if we ever moved to the 'DIGITAL DOLLAR'. If there's ever a Candidate running on that platform, then vote against them. Guess which Party has contemplated this very issue?

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