Hong Kong Government To Track Citizens With Next-Level CCP-Type COVID Smartphone App

• Hong Kong Government To Track Citizens With Next-Level CCP-Type COVID Smartphone App
  by Niee Law and Ying Cheung The Epoch Times, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Since the new chief executive, John Lee Ka-chiu took office; he has been ready to do whatever it takes to please the CCP.
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  The Hong Kong government (HKgov) has been proactively seeking ways to reopen cross-borders with China. Hkgov plans to enforce the CCP’s Health Code tracking into Hongkongers’ pandemic life. Commentators and netizens are nervous about losing personal freedom and privacy under the regime.
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  HKgov has plans to add the COVID-19 Color Code system to the current LeaveHomeSafe App. Doing so will further restrict citizens’ movements. This app is a HKgov-made mobile vaccine passport for tracing and tracking COVID-19 patients and their public visits.
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  Lo Chung-mau, Secretary for Health Authority (HA), said the Information, Technology and Industry Bureau (ITIB) and HA had concluded an evaluation of LeaveHomeSafe just half a month after the new government took office on July 1.
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  Lo claimed that Hong Kong must mirror the CCP’s Dynamic-Zero Policy to ease pandemic cases, as it is a good policy. “Any policy which eliminates high-risk patients’ public visits is a good policy we should learn from.” His comments confirmed citizens’ concern about real-identity-based registration on the app.
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  Limitation of Movement or Under Surveillance
  Hong Kong has been quietly running a similar system since 2021. Nevertheless, the Hong Kong code had only been applied to those who cross the borders of Guangdong Province, China, or Macau under quarantine exemptions. The color code allowed both cities to watch their Covid-19 cases.
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