Posted on 02/15/2020 9:42:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
Police are flying drones around vehicle checkpoints with a large QR code that people are supposed to scan to register their health information. And while we didn’t believe it at first, reports from China’s state-run media indicate that it’s actually happening.
The drones are popping up in cities like Shenzhen in Guangdong province, where cops are using them in an effort to keep law enforcement officers away from the public. The drones broadcast messages with instructions on how to use your smartphone to scan a QR code and submit health info to a government-run website online.
“Please open the window, take out your mobile phone, scan the QR code to register, and keep the successful interface,” the drone says, according to one English translation on Twitter.
QR codes, a technology that’s much more common in Asia and kind of fizzled out in the U.S. during the 2010s, are being used in other ways as well. In the Chinese province of Yunnan, people are reportedly required to scan a QR code at the entrance of many buildings to track the public’s movements.
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How long before they are flying drones around with IR cameras that can detect those with a fever...and then send for ‘shock troops’ of health.
Or is this already happening?
Watched a twitter video where a band of chinese health troopers were wandering around town like the boys in clockwork orange. Any shop with a light on was screamed at and out came the big bats. Are we living in a B movie ? Lol.
I saw a video of the drones making an announcement: “Put on a mask”
I don’t doubt that if a deadly pandemic comes to LA or NYC and they were quarantined the US government wouldn’t do something similar. US Democrats and PRC totalitarians are not that different.
It is also safer to have a drone yelling at people than to have guys on the street
Unarmed drones...
they’ve got another code that’s punched into the phone and the phone reports your location history for the past week. So no lying where you’ve been, either
The state-owned electronics firm Huawei built and runs the country's cell towers. No need to hack into your phone in order to track your location. Just call up the record of your cell phone's "pings" to the cell phone network towers.
Sounds like a good idea actually. Pretty much a public service announcement.
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