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Chinese anti-coronavirus technology: from thermometer drones to sneaky apps if you get sick
Source: www.elmundo.es
20/03/2020
China is a totalitarian state in which the use of technology has been crucial to monitor and control the population during the coronavirus epidemic.
Every morning at the same time, the messaging service of the China Unicom telephone company begins with its bombardment of notifications: «Please download the application and complete the daily health check. Your information will only be used for the prevention and control of epidemics », says one message after another.
When you open the link, a drawing of a nurse wearing a mask appears, inviting you to record all your data and to tell what your last trips have been. Then he asks if you have a fever, cough, or dyspnea. If yes, in a few minutes a guy carrying a red bracelet with the symbols of the Communist Party of China It will appear on your doorstep to take your temperature, ask you more questions, ask you not to leave home in a few days and give you a sheet with a list of the closest hospitals.
CORONAVIRUSES AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONTROL
With the coronavirus and the application of Alibaba something similar happens. Alipay Health Code is a software managed by the Chinese government that classifies people in three colors: red, yellow and green. If you are among the last, don't worry, you can move freely. On your mobile you will have a QR code with which you can enter the subway or the few restaurants that are open. But if it is yellow or red, it is better not to leave the house. It will be signaled by the system, that will notify the police immediately.. You will become a "person at risk", that is, you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in the area of high contagion for the past 14 days.
Esta aplicación ya es obligatoria en más de 200 ciudades chinas. The New York Times published a report yesterday in which they told how they had carried out an analysis of the software code for this program. »The system does more than decide in real time if someone presents a risk of contagion. He also seems to share information with the police, establishing a template for new forms of automated social control they could persist long after the epidemic disappears, "warned the American newspaper. Although the authorities, through the state news agency Xinhua, have ensured that all the data collected will only be used to fight the coronavirus outbreak and that it will then be deleted.
China has been cloistered for too long because of the Wuhan coronavirus. More than 40 days from the largest sanitary lock in history. The World Health Organization (WHO) praises the draconian measures that the Asian giant has applied to contain the virus. The closure of large cities, isolating more than 56 million people in Hubei province, closing shops, banning transport ... And, of course, using the best technology. President Xi Jinping expressly asked the technology sector to help fight the epidemic.
GREAT CITY ROBOT
In the streets of big cities like Beijing or Shanghai we have seen disinfectant robots and drones equipped with thermal cameras to take the temperature to all the residents of the same building. The Shenzhen-based company Pudu Technology, which generally makes robots for the catering industry, has installed its machines in more than 40 hospitals across the country to assist medical personnel. And MicroMultiCopter, also in Shenzhen, has deployed its drones to transport medical samples de los hospitales a los laboratorios.
El último invento que hemos viso han sido unos cascos inteligentes que pueden medir la temperatura en un radio de cinco metros. Si alguien da positivo, el casco emite una alarma. Estos días lo han usado funcionarios de la ciudad de Chengdu, en la provincia de Sichuan. El casco, fabricado por la firma tecnológica Kuang-Chi Technologies, es capable of taking the temperature of more than 200 people in less than two minutes.
En la lucha tecnológica contra el coronavirus en China, tampoco hay que olvidarse de los famosos sistemas de reconocimiento facial. Companies are already using them to scan crowds for fever and identify people who don't wear masks. For example, from SenseTime, the leading artificial intelligence company in China, they say that their non-contact temperature detection software has been implemented in the metro stations of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. And they assure that they are capable of «recognize faces even when people wear masks«.
Hoy, el diario Asia Times también publicaba un interesante artículo sobre cómo China está utilizando los datos de location of the phones of millions of citizens to contain the spread of Covid-19.
Explican que, según fuentes de las autoridades chinas familiarizadas con estos programas, los algoritmos del gobierno pueden estimar la probabilidad en la que un vecindario determinado, o incluso un individuo, esté expuesto al coronavirus haciendo coincidir la ubicación de los teléfonos inteligentes con las localizaciones conocidas de individuos o grupos infectados.
Las autoridades utilizarían esta información para usar recursos médicos limitados de manera más eficiente, por ejemplo, dirigiendo las pruebas del virus a sujetos de alto riesgo identificados por el algoritmo de inteligencia artificial.
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