Biden’s COVID team considered a test and trace app that would have let businesses deny service to patrons based on their health data. It also would have divided users into three color-coded categories—just like China did last year., the Free Beacon reported.
Donald Trump tweeted, “Never thought I’d see the day where we’d be stealing ideas from the Chinese Communist Party in America. This is as Un-American as it gets! The Democrat party/radical left won’t stop until they’ve taken all your freedoms.”
He linked to the Free Beacon article which stated that the program has eerie echoes of China’s surveillance system, which uses data from citizens’ phones to impose quarantines.
The app, pioneered by the University of Illinois, apparently tried to sell Biden on scaling up the school’s contact tracing system. It records test results and Bluetooth data to determine who has been exposed to the virus—and “links building access” to that information.
The system resembles the one being used in China, where a mandatory app gives each user a “health status”—green, yellow, or red—that dictates access to public spaces. The University of Illinois app likewise divides users into three categories: “yellow” if they’ve recently tested negative, “orange” if they’ve potentially been exposed, and “red” if they’ve recently tested positive. Only students with a yellow status may enter buildings.
It’s a more extreme version of the vaccine passport.
This could be the beginning of a China-style social credit system.
We have a Constitution with a Bill of Rights. That’s the only passport we need.
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@ Greg,
Never had one and never will. Telescreens, teevee, destroyed by Marxism education system, obedience instead of questioning authority, the government should do something about it mindset and the Frankenfood diet are why we are in dire straits.
Maybe IBM will be behind the new COV digital passport and any who don’t get it will be considered untermenschen to be dealt with in a Final Solution to the vax denier question.
It is already happening in Deutschland and the UK with the excluding of the unvaccinated.
Just read an article from Dr. WHO (Bill Gates & CCP) stating that questioning the origins of the Wuhandemic is blasphemy.
Nope, the URL isn’t the Mystery Babylon Bee.
The edicts will be posted on stone tablets at the Sino-American Friendship Center in the interest of the people’s unity.
Your freedom has been a lie, we are here to liberate you, comrades. Forward.
And if you don’t have a phone. The more I see the more confident I am in choosing not to have or use “surveillance” tech.