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China releases draft case for national digital ID, raising fears of tighter social control
China is planning the launch of a national digital identity system, and in a sense it is surprising that it has taken this long.
The piece quotes Rose Luqiu, an assistant professor of journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University, who says “with this internet ID, your every move online, all your digital traces, will be monitored by the regulators. It quotes Tom Nunlist, associate director at China-focused consultancy Trivium, who believes a centralized national ID would mean a trade-off between compromises to privacy, in that it would be harder for companies to track customer behavior, but easier for police to monitor the same. But, in a separate article published on the WeChat account of the university’s Centre for Constitutional and Administrative Law, Shen notes that unified, centralized national surveillance programs understandably tend to make people nervous.
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