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Feb 22, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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China's surveillance state starts from digital ID

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Citizens must apply for a ID card, which contains information: name, gender, nationality, date of birth, address, ID number, and biometric information, such as photos, facial features, palm features, fingerprints, DNA.
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into airport and board your plane now.

This was in 2019 Beijing airport
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into the train station and take your train now.

This was in 2018 Shanghai train station.
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to get into the coach station and take your bus now.

This was in 2019, in a coach station of Yunnan province.
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In China, facial recognition (digital ID) is mandatory to check in hotel now and the machine is linked to police station.

If you are on the blacklist of #SocialCreditSystem, you cannot stay at any starred hotel.
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In China, facial (digital ID) is mandatory to receive your pension and health insurance now.

A care worker in a care home scanning the faces of elderly people, which would then allow them to access their pension and health insurance.
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Nov 3, 2023
China's WeChat app tells users whether they are within a 500-meter radius of someone, who have the lowest social credit scores and are on the social credit blacklist.

It maps ppl near you with their social credit score, so you move away from undesirables & not lose your points.
It's called a "map of deadbeat debtors." 

It shows people if they're standing near someone in debt (to Chinese government, so they are blacklisted) — a part of its intrusive 'social credit' policy.
If you are on social credit blacklist, you become a ghost, a 'unperson' like in '1984', people are trying to get away from you like you have infectious disease.
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Oct 30, 2023
Now, a minimum social credit score of 550 is required to charge your electric car and buy food from self-service grocery stores & vending machines in China.

If your score is below 550, you can't eat or travel. Chinese people are prisoners living in open air digital prison!
China names and shames citizens with the lowest Social Credit Scores, by displaying their faces, IDs, addresses...on billboards in LED trucks, driving around the town for all to see.

This also alerts who you may want to 'stay away' from, lest your social credit score goes down!!
China is integrating Central Bank Digital Currency into its Social Credit System.

To make payment with your face, you'll now need a minimum Social Credit Score of 650.

The face payment is powered by Alipay or WeChat, two Chinese digital wallet apps.
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Oct 19, 2023
A look inside China's social credit system.

Now, a minimum social credit score of 550 is required to buy food from unmanned grocery stores.
China is integrating Central Bank Digital Currency into its Social Credit System.

To charge your electric car, you'll now need a minimum Social Credit Score of 550. These charger stations run on Alipay, a Chinese digital wallet.
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To charge your electric car, you'll now need a minimum Social Credit Score of 550. Image
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Oct 12, 2023
Once you are blacklisted by social credit system, you can no longer do online shopping in China. Because all online shopping sites require real name to login in, and you need to make payments with digital wallets Alipay and WeChat.
China's Social Credit Scoring System

If your social credit score gets so low that you get 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 by Chinese government, your children can be barred from attending high school.
#China publicly humiliates citizens with a 'D' Social Credit Rating by displaying their faces, IDs, and addresses...on billboards in LED trucks travelling around town for all to see.

Notifies you to individuals you should 'avoid' in order to keep your social credit score intact!
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Feb 16, 2023
When cash goes digital, bringing the risks of exclusion, discrimination, and surveillance...Chinese government think facial recognition gives them new instrument that will perfect their rule.

Meet China's Grab and Go grocery store and their numbers are growing fast
American Grab and Go grocery store.
Look at those surveillance cameras!
Xiamen City, 2018
Travellers scanned their ID cards and faces to get into the train station

China builds the world’s largest state security apparatus, including a massive facial recognition surveillance network, a corresponding biometric database, and a national ID card system.
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Feb 14, 2023
It’s also possible in China to get yin-yang fish: a fish whose body is deep fried while it’s head is protected. “Speed is the key — when you prepare the fish, you can’t hurt its internal organs, so when you serve it, it can stay alive for at least half an hour,”
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The method of preparing is quite simple and quick - shrimps are shortly submerged in alcohol, and as soon as the effects of alcohol have taken place and the shrimps have relaxed, they are eaten.
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