Many thanks to you for visiting this page and raving about the article. We notice the weeks that the three parts in this series are generally read through and further shared, especially through the corona pass. We may want to note a few things before reading these articles. As you can go through 1 to a certain extent, the CoronaCheck is generally not as old as the Health Code. In that article, I especially can't help but think about why the Code used a lot of analysis a year earlier that focused on large numbers of us. This does not mean that as an essayist I reject the CoronaCheck or Health Code. China's Code has been important in the fight against COVID-19 in China. The CoronaCheck is an important means of demonstrating your immunization and testing status. You could contrast how this can be used, but that's not what these articles are about. What information is used in the CoronaCheck is, as researched to a certain extent2, really simple. The second article in my information that uses China and the third article on how the welfare code is used for applications beyond the target. Be that as it may, the Netherlands is not China. The statement that 'this anticipates us extra' on those QR codes is by definition pernicious is not demonstrated by these articles. In short: this series is actually about the conditions in China. Analyzing the CoronaCheck application should be warned in advance with malfunctions of that application and its use, not with unfounded grounds that 'The Netherlands will soon become very much like China.
We have recently been able to use the CoronaCheck application in the Netherlands. With this application it is possible to prove that your ongoing tested negative twisted operation has the infection. Soon you will also be able to prove to me that you have been fully vaccinated twisted, or previously infected bowed. You can then log in with DigiID loaded information about vaccinations from the RIVM or GGD information bases. If one of these situations applies, a QR code is generated consisting of a kind of agreement and a limited amount of personal data such as your initials, date of birth and month. With this QR code it would then become possible to access toddler events, catering locations, museums, and so forth. You should also be able to cross the border more easily from July within the European Union (although countries still have additional measures, such as testing and setting up quarantines). In addition to the CoronaCheck application, there is also a CoronaCheck Scanner. This application allows a user to scan a QR code from the CoronaCheck application. The sweep then results in a green or red screen. Green means that the person behind the QR code meets the above requirements. The personal data is then shown, after which the scanning person can check it against the identity document to verify that the QR code and the ID card belong to the same person. If the requirements are not met, the screen will turn red and a large cross will be visible.
China's Health Code Last year I wrote extensively about the Health Code application kick the bucket China, with the help of its internet companies, introduced in February 2020 at lightning speed after the crown outbreak in Wuhan in January. Users were required to enter phone number, name and ID card number, where they had been recently (travel history), what their temperature was, and if they had any COVID-19 symptoms. Operation premise of this travel and health information, the application generated a QR code with a certain color. With green people could go where they wanted, with yellow one had to self-quarantine for 7 days and with red even 14 days. According to the authorities, the color was determined by 3 factors: the travel history, the time the user has been in a risk area and the relationship with potentially infected persons. Where exactly kick the bucket information came from, however, remained (and remains) vague. Once registered, users were asked to show their QR code at various locations. For example, supermarkets, residential communities, schools, public transport, cafes, public buildings, shopping centers and companies saw the color of the QR code and operation premise could possibly be refused access. In addition to showing their colored QR code, citizens in some cities were also asked to scan a QR code before entering a vehicle (taxi, metro or transport). Sometimes this was not mandatory and entry was not denied, so many passengers did not scan. The freedom of movement was severely restricted if you could not show a green QR code in the application. What is known about how the application works suggests a rather low-tech item. The government would probably rather be protected than sorry and deprive citizens of their green QR code at the slightest risk. Rather unjustly saddle some of the people with one or two weeks of mandatory quarantine than let an infected person slip away. However, the applications, with their big-step-fast-home approach, have undoubtedly contributed to the rapid containment of infection in China.
Contact following While China had launched its Health Code applications within a month, the introduction of contact following applications in European countries was a lot slower. In the Netherlands we were able to watch a rather embarrassing 'crown appathon' in April 2020. It would then take months before the final application could actually be downloaded in October. While in the Netherlands we were poldering about the protection of protection, in China, thanks to pass on Health Codes, normal life had largely returned after 3 months. Use of the final Corona Reporter is voluntary in the Netherlands. In China, the Health Code was theoretically not mandatory, but you couldn't really get anywhere if you didn't use the Health Code application. Many Chinese live in so-called xiao qu; a residential community with a wall around it and one or more gates with a guard. Without a green QR code you wouldn't pass such a guard at all. Still, the acceptance rate among Chinese citizens was high. Research by Genia Kostka and Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla of the Free University of Berlin in June 2020 showed that 80% of Chinese respondents were (very) positive towards contact following applications, while in Germany and the United States this was 41% and 39 respectively. % used to be. The survey found that Chinese people were especially suspicious of what the internet companies were doing with their information, while in Germany and the U.S. There were more concerns about the government's use of personal data entryway. This confirmed what I described earlier and which is perhaps counter-intuitive: Chinese are more familiar with and more confident in data collection entryway the government. Another notable detail from the survey was that 21% of Americans, 13% of Germans and only 3% of Chinese believed the COVID-19 epidemic was a conspiracy. To be clear, the Health Code application is not actually a true contact following application. Unlike many other applications such as 'our' CoronaMelder, the application does not measure whether you have been close to an infected person using bluetooth or any other technology. It is more of a risk evaluation system, which therefore more closely resembles the operation of the CoronaCheck application than the CoronaMelder application.
QR codes for more freedom
The introduction of the Chinese Health Code has been accompanied in the west by stories of scary information mining entryway a government pass on keeping an eye on everything. Operation premise from what we know about how the applications work, these seem almost embarrassingly simple (more on that in a future article). After initially complaining in the press that such a Health Code was another typical Chinese reconnaissance device, we saw horses more often initiatives in the west, kick the bucket seemed a lot of operation.
In May 2020, a Dutch entrepreneur, undoubtedly inspired entryway China's Health Code, developed a Check conversation application kick the bucket that also gives a color code when visiting, for example, the catering industry. An SME kick the bucket who purchases this commercial item gets its own QR code bite the dust it can stick at the entrance. Customers must scan these, answer the questions about their health kick the bucket a chatbot asks them and enter at least one personal data (entryway required by the government since August 2020). That goes even further than in China...
After the visit, a QR code must be scanned again to check out. The application should simplify the mandatory triage interview in catering and contact professions since June 2020. I personally wonder, however, if the process really gets that much easier. I can imagine that people do not know digger a QR code has to be scanned and that discussions about security arise. Personal data that we apparently did not want to share in a government app are stored in the information base of the provider of Check Conversation, together with the details of the visit (location and time). For example, contact can be made later if an infected person turned out to be present at the same time as Operation Pass on location. Like the average Chinese, I personally have more trouble with the fact that a commercial party manages pass on information.
I have no idea if the application has been used a lot; little more was written about it after the press releases during the introduction. According to Google Trends, after a pass-on period of press attention, there is not much searched for the term 'check conversation' at all. Incidentally, Check Conversation.nl was not the only provider of such an application; Check conversation-horeca.nl also came up with something similar.
Emergency room are also countries where people are quite willing to use this kind of applications operation on a large scale if that gives back a bit of freedom. For example, Nu.nl later told in a short report about the crown approach in Australia. Partly due to the strict intervention of the government, which is aimed at eradicating infection – in contrast to limiting the maximum pressure in care – and the fact that it concerns an island, the scale of the emergency has remained limited there. . Australians are fairly free to go where they want, but they do use an application with QR codes. Here too, it seems to go a lot further than the Chinese Health Code. Australians are required to check-in entryway into the NHS COVID-19 application wherever they go to scan the QR codes of the relevant locations. This allows the National Health Service to track where people are at all times. According to the Dutch pass on Nu.nl speaking in the report, everyone thinks that is fine and people are not so worried about security. Like the Health Code, Australian QR code applications give risk-free citizens a lot of freedom and you can even hold parties at home, as long as guests check in with the host's own QR code.
Coming soon to a democracy near you At a G-20 meeting in November 2020, Xi Jinping floated the idea of an international QR code. In March, China introduced the International Travel Health Certificate (ITHC) for out-of-towners. The system contains information about COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and antibody testing operation. Users enter their passport numbers into a government WeChat little program. Verification of identity takes place upon registration by means of: face recognition. All information is encrypted in the QR code so that relevant authorities of the host countries can read out.
