Health code of "bad taste"

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Have you ever thought that the "health code" will always exist, and no matter what you do in the future, you have to take out the QR code to see it?

During the Gengzi period, it was popular all over the country, and everyone was in danger. In order to curb the spread of the epidemic, "health code" came into being, which integrated personal information into one code and made great contributions to the prevention and control of the epidemic.

With the gradual decline of the epidemic situation in China, the "health code" once used by people should gradually fade out of people's field of vision and properly handle the personal privacy information collected by health codes. However, the Hangzhou Health and Health Commission wants to carry forward the "health code" and put forward the idea of gradually changing the health code.

On May 22nd, Hangzhou Health and Health Commission put forward the idea of "knowing health with one yard". By integrating the relevant data of personal case, physical examination and lifestyle management, and according to the data of exercise steps, drinking, smoking and sleep quality, the health is scored, and different scoring health codes display different colors, and a ranking table of personal health index is established. In addition, big data can also be used for the assessment of health groups such as corridors, communities and enterprises.

At the same time, the person in charge also stressed that all districts, counties (cities), units and offices should try their best to create excellent application scenarios, polish gold-lettered signboards, etc., combine health and health services with their brains, seek new articles, and make new moves ... Explore scene development, mechanism improvement, standard construction, etc., accelerate the creation of more products that benefit the people, and strive to form a closed-loop ecological service circle that serves people's health.

As soon as this news came out, it caused an uproar on the Internet, and almost all netizens overwhelmingly opposed this idea, thinking that Hangzhou's gradual health code seriously violated personal privacy information. Some netizens even commented that in the future, work and blind date should show their health codes to see if they are healthy; People whose health code is red will be more expensive to buy insurance. Some netizens also said that they have already ranked the pace of WeChat, and now they have reached the health ranking. This comparison is tireless. After all, schools are gradually canceling rankings, but the world of adults is full of rankings.

The concerns of netizens are not unreasonable. In fact, once the gradual reform of health code is really implemented in China, its consequences and influence may be much more serious. A small QR code is like a huge personal information database. At present, the robustness of this database remains to be discussed. If you rashly invest a lot of personal privacy information, once a security accident occurs, the price will be unimaginable.

If we carefully consider the background of gradient health code, I'm afraid it reflects a new social governance model, that is, stripping personal personality characteristics in the application scenario, and finally becoming a number with unified standards, thus realizing the so-called "intelligence", but in fact it is "automation" management.

Susu couldn't help thinking of those brain-burning sci-fi movies that stayed up all night, such as Me, Robot, blade runner, westworld, Black Mirror ... Maybe in the future, those incredible but extremely horrible contents in movies and TV will come true.

Furthermore, the health code is to achieve social isolation and public epidemic prevention during the epidemic period, track personal whereabouts, find potential safety hazards, and make great contributions to controlling and effectively preventing the spread of the epidemic. For the sake of the overall situation, people are forced to hand over all personal information, including private personal information, including name, address, telephone number, frequent places and routes.

However, this does not mean that this kind of sacrifice can be used indefinitely. After all, it was only an expedient measure at that time, which was related to everyone's life safety and public safety, and no one had a choice. With the relief of the epidemic, the information collected by health codes should be destroyed, instead of discussing how to expand the scope of information collection of health codes and collect more and more personal privacy information.

Didn't the Health and Health Commission consider whether it would infringe on personal privacy when it put forward this idea? Don't you need user authorization to integrate the relevant data of electronic medical records, health checkups and lifestyle management privately? Whether it is smoking, drinking or running, in the final analysis, it is extremely private information and has nothing to do with public health and safety. How can I hand it in uniformly?

Compared with the big data collected by health codes, the appearance of gradient health codes is bound to collect more kinds of personal privacy information. How this information will be used, stored and circulated is unknown, and it will inevitably be used by others for business or even illegal use. At that time, we were really streaking.

Panic in the era of privacy disclosure

In fact, this gradual health code incident has aroused strong opposition from people, and the deep-seated reason lies in the panic of information disclosure in the network age and the desire to defend their privacy.

In the Internet age, our personal privacy information was leaked. You never know when your private information will be collected by others, and those pervasive permission calls and information access make us feel deeply afraid. Maybe you just bought a dress on the e-commerce platform, maybe you just browsed a website, or accidentally clicked an advertisement. ......

These may collect your personal information, not to mention the app registered on your mobile phone, and you don't even know what information it will collect. There are also a large number of websites that collect users' personal information and are attacked by hackers. A large amount of information is either scattered on the Internet in plain text or directly packaged and sold on the dark network.

As a result of large-scale information leakage, you will receive numerous sales calls: selling houses, cars, online courses, selling insurance, teaching you to stock market and so on. You will also receive countless spam messages. In addition to the verification code, the information of the mobile phone is probably these spam messages.

If it's just harassment, people may tolerate it, but information leakage will also bring all kinds of telecom fraud, and if you are not careful, you will lose.

For example, the SMS fraud of accurately returning and changing the visa is completely true, and the flight, name and destination are correct.

Another example is the accurate Taobao order refund fraud. As soon as you receive the courier, the fraudster already knows all the information of the order, including the order number, Taobao name and telephone number. So that I accidentally fell into the trap.

Back to this incident of gradually changing the health code, we have carefully protected our information security, and we will still receive numerous harassment and fraud. If we really hand over so much of our private information, the ways and scope of information disclosure will greatly increase. Predictably, we will be unprepared then.

In the final analysis, the increasingly serious information leakage has completely destroyed people's sense of security and trust, and Hangzhou gradient health code has not mentioned any information protection measures. In the eyes of the public, once these private information is handed in, it is no different from throwing it online. Because they have suffered from countless similar incidents, the ubiquitous information collection and disclosure have frightened users.

In this case, how can the public agree and allow the Health Law to collect their own private information?

On the other hand, it is also a struggle against their due rights.

The Network Security Law clearly stipulates the principles of legality, justness and necessity for network operators in the process of collecting and using personal information. At the same time, it is further required that the rules of public collection and use must be observed, and the purpose, method and scope of information collection and use must be clearly stated, and data can be collected and used only after the consent of the collected person.

However, people never seem to enjoy the rights granted by law. The reason is that there are still countless information collectors who have not conscientiously implemented the corresponding laws and regulations, followed the principle of minimizing information collection, and collected and used information strictly and normatively. Nowadays, Hangzhou Health and Health Commission, as a national government agency, is still so casual in information collection, which naturally causes strong public resentment.

We should know that privacy, as a kind of personality right, means that people's private lives and private information secrets are protected according to law and are not illegally harassed, informed, collected, used and made public by others. Moreover, the right subject has the right to decide to what extent others can interfere in their private lives, whether their privacy is open to others, and the scope and extent of disclosure.

With the continuous improvement of citizens' awareness of information protection, they are more and more cautious about protecting their own privacy information. From this point of view, although the Hangzhou gradient health code is a failed attempt by the government, it reflects from the side that our citizens' awareness of information protection has awakened, which is not a bad thing for us who are about to enter the Internet of Things society.

Fortunately, the gradual QR code is just the idea of Hangzhou Health and Health Commission, and there is no clear online plan, so there is still enough time and space to improve it. Although the appearance of gradient health code may indeed be "good intentions" from the original intention, if the plan is implemented, it will be a real "bad thing" and will bring serious threats to society and the public.

It is better to use this "kindness" in the protection of citizens' information, lay a solid foundation, and never let the health code that has made great contributions "taste bad".