The travel card will be offline in two hours. Where is the health code going?

With the continuous optimization of epidemic prevention measures, the communication travel card will end its mission after nearly three years of operation. At 0: 00 today, the official WeChat account of "Traffic Travel Card" announced that the "Traffic Travel Card" service will be officially launched at 0: 00 on June 3, and the inquiry channels of "Traffic Travel Card" such as SMS, webpage, WeChat applet and APP will be offline simultaneously.

It is reported that after the "communication travel card" service goes offline, the relevant user data will be completely deleted to prevent data security risks. "travel itinerary has lost its meaning, and it is a positive thing to go offline as soon as possible." Chen Dongping, dean of Shenzhen Smart City Big Data Research Institute, said in an interview with China Newsweek.

With the offline of tourist cards, whether the health codes closely related to people's daily lives will be revoked has attracted much attention.

The "Communication Travel Card" service will be offline in 65438+February 65438+March. Figure/vision china

The travel card is not accurate.

Communication Travel Card, namely "Communication Big Data Travel Card", also referred to as "Travel Card", was launched by China Information and Communication Research Institute in conjunction with China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, and went online on March 6, 2020. Initially, users can open the WeChat applet "Traffic Travel Card" and fill in the mobile phone number and verification code, so that they can get the travel vouchers of places that have stayed for more than 4 hours in the past 14 days. Travel cards with an asterisk "*" indicate cities with medium and high risk areas in the past 14 days, but it does not mean that users have actually been to these medium and high risk areas.

Subsequently, the travel card has undergone a series of optimization adjustments.

In September, 20021year, the national government service platform integrated the health code and travel itinerary code, and realized the "integration of the two codes" in the whole country, that is, you can view travel itinerary at the same time by opening the health code. From June 29, 2022, the "asterisk" mark on the communication itinerary card will be cancelled. From July 8th, the query time range of communication travel cards was shortened from 14 days to 7 days. As of May 26th this year, the number of data travel card user inquiries announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has reached more than 55.6 billion times.

The original intention of the travel card is to support the rational flow of people and the safe return to work and production. Chen Dongping said, however, at the time of implementation, travel itinerary lacked accuracy, and it was difficult to accurately determine the high-risk scope to the county or district-level and below administrative regions.

The official WeChat account of the communication travel card mentioned in the authoritative answer to the question of 1 2 in June this year that the travel card analyzes the mobile phone signaling and bill data, which are obtained by the operator through the location of the base station where the user's mobile phone number is located. Due to technical reasons, such as possible cross-coverage of base station signals, limited accuracy of signaling data, data update delay, etc. Travel card service data may have some deviations.

For the question of "I haven't been to a place but show/visited b place but don't show", the article answers that the travel card service uses base station data. In order to ensure continuous communication and achieve no blind area coverage, the base station signals of the two places at the junction of administrative divisions may cross-cover, which may cause mobile phones to use the base station signals of neighboring cities without roaming. In addition, staying in a city for less than 4 hours will not be recorded.

In Chen Dongping's view, the big data application of travel cards is still in a very superficial stage, and has not been deeply explored and extended. "If the trip code wants to have practical significance, it must be able to describe the electronic trajectory and the length of time of human action." Chen Dongping believes that this will involve processing a large amount of data, and secondly, it will increase the comparison with various other data. In his view, it can be done at the technical level, but it requires huge investment from operators.

Will the health code quit?

The itinerary code will be offline soon. With the new article 10 proposing that "the negative certificate of nucleic acid detection and health code will no longer be checked for cross-regional floating population", where will the health code go?

Personal health code data includes personal basic information, personal health information, etc. Each category contains different specific data items. According to the data structure of health codes in the national standard "Data Format of Personal Health Information Codes", health codes cover a large amount of personal information.

Health codes in many places in China are formulated by local governments, and enterprises provide technical support. "Every place has its own health code, which covers a lot of detailed personal data. It is still unclear where the data will go. " A domestic public health expert said. In his view, "the legal person role of some local health standard operators is vague and lacks a clear responsibility bearer."

According to the media, the distribution rules of health codes are mainly formulated by provincial administrative units, but the competent units are different in different provinces. For example, the competent unit of "Health Treasure" in Beijing is Beijing Economic and Information Administration Bureau; The competent unit of "Su Kang Code" in Jiangsu Province is Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention; The competent department of health coding in Hunan Province is the Hunan Provincial Health and Wellness Committee; The competent units of Liaoshitong in Liaoning Province are Liaoning Business Environment Construction Bureau and Provincial Information Center.

"When the epidemic comes in early 2020, digital enterprises all over the country need to build a health code system quickly, which can be regarded as a barbaric growth period. Until now, although there are some management mechanisms, it is not excluded that some enterprises have access to personal data. " Chen Dongping said that behind the health code are the personal information of hundreds of millions of people, including detailed mobile information, payment information and commuting information. Once leaked, it will affect national security. This requires the relevant departments to supervise the third-party operators involved.

For a long time, the forms of health codes are not uniform in different places, and the functions of health codes are gradually expanding and generalizing. In some areas, health codes will also be integrated into local medical services, public transportation and even payment methods.

1654381October 9th, the Tenth Five-Year Plan of National Health Informatization jointly issued by National Health Commission and other departments mentioned that by 2025, a unified, authoritative and interconnected national health information platform support and guarantee system will be initially established, and the full coverage of public medical and health institutions and national health information platforms will be basically realized. Every resident has a dynamically managed electronic health record and a fully functional electronic health code. This news caused a heated discussion for a while.

Since then, people close to the National Health Planning Commission have responded to the media that the so-called "electronic health code" is not the "health code" used in epidemic prevention. The "health code" for epidemic prevention and control is mainly used for epidemic prevention and control, which is related to vaccination and nucleic acid detection information in COVID-19; "Electronic health code" is mainly used for medical and health services, including identification, settlement, service and other functions. It has been implemented for many years and is used to associate residents' electronic health records, electronic medical records and other medical service information.

In Chen Dongping's view, "since the outbreak, health regulations have indeed played a relatively large role."

"The data collected after the outbreak is mainly nucleic acid detection data and site code information. The key now is how to deal with these two types of retained data. " Zheng Lei, a professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University and director of the Digital and Mobile Governance Laboratory, said in an interview with China Business News. "With the landing of Article 10 of the People's Republic of China, data such as nucleic acid information and site codes should be destroyed, sealed or completely desensitized." Zheng Lei explained.

Chen Dongping suggested that the privacy protection data mechanism should be further improved in the future, such as the storage and management of health code data, which should be entrusted to national authorities. On the other hand, he does not suggest that such a huge amount of information and data be completely integrated to draw a concrete portrait, which is also rare in the world.

The state and even local governments have clear regulations on the handling of personal information. According to Article 6 of the General Principles of the Personal Information Protection Law, personal information should be handled with a clear and reasonable purpose and in a way that has the least impact on personal rights and interests. Personal information should be collected for the purpose of processing, limited to a minimum range, and personal information should not be collected excessively.

On 2002 1 and1,the comprehensive group of joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council issued the Interim Measures for the Management and Service of Health Code for Epidemic Prevention and Control in COVID-19. Twenty-fourth clearly strengthen the protection of personal privacy, personal information collected for epidemic prevention and disease prevention shall not be used for other purposes.

Zheng Lei said in an interview that in the future, health codes should be used for health and wellness purposes first, such as not taking a medical insurance card to see a doctor, brushing a medical insurance card with a health code, and scanning the code to pay for registration. The future application scenarios of health code can be realized in this direction, which is not mandatory, but only provides people with a variety of choices. However, there are also views that with the end of epidemic prevention and control, the currently used health code should be withdrawn from the historical stage. There are many uncertainties about the damage of health code to personal information or privacy.

Chen Dongping believes that when big data is abused, it will only lead to local investment in more capital, manpower and other resources, which makes epidemic prevention deviate from the precise direction. Some abuses of data under the guise of big data precision epidemic prevention should be ended.

Reporter: Niu He