[COUNTrecount]

People are urged to register their phone number and national ID number to use the service.

What could possibly go wrong with that??

[georgiegirl]

Send it to Iowa!

[Da Coyote]

Yeah, like we’re going to trust Chinese software.
For anything...

[VTenigma]

I hope it works better than the “Shadow” app.

[Red Badger]

Here's the main screen:

[Rurudyne]

“Espionage device, please tell the government where I’m at and who I’ve seen, thanks.”

[RightGeek]

[scouter]

I think they’re just weeding out the ones with low IQs.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

“It’s a really powerful tool that really shows the power of data being used for good...”

... by hard-fisted communists.

[TexasGator]

“What could possibly go wrong with that?? “

That line is getting old.

China already has the data. This just lets the people have access.

[PIF]

Possible and theoretical results after close contact registered by the app:

“Medical staff” will pay a home visit, take your temperature. If you have a raised temperature, they will chain your door shut from the outside; if you have a high temperature and other symptoms, they will administer the test kit and take you to the hospital; if you are really sick, they will forcibly remove you and others from the dwelling sending all to a sealed quarantine camp to get well or die on their own.

Deaths, after recovery, from organ failure will be treated as a ‘normal’ death with the body cremated per CCP order.

[BuffaloJack]

Is this part of China’s “Black Mirror” social score app?

[bgill]

There goes your social credit score.

[philetus]

China knows where all the infected people are?

[Phil DiBasquette]

I don’t need an app for that
Just go on the NYC Subway

[xp38]

Cheap Chinese Apps.

[KittyKares]

You’ll find out soon enough if you were in contact with someone contagious. You could also have been in contact but your immune system destroyed it, so why risk being carted off by the authorities somewhere where everyone has it?

[SharpRightTurn]

“People are urged to register their phone number and national ID number to use the service.”

Right. That certainly won’t come back to bite you in the People’s Republic.

[grey_whiskers]

It’s just a GPS app that says “are you in China?” /sarc>