User data to be deleted as itinerary card goes offline
22:15 UTC+8, 2022-12-12
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The user data of China's COVID-19 itinerary card will be deleted at the same time when the application is retired on Tuesday.
22:15 UTC+8, 2022-12-12
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The user data of the COVID-19 itinerary card will be deleted at the same time when the mobile phone application is retired on Tuesday to protect user privacy as per the law, China's three major telecom carriers, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, announced on Monday.
The Communications Itinerary Card is a public application which tracks whether someone has been to a high-risk area based on their phone signal. First launched in late February of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has 900 million users and has been used more than 60 billion times, according to the website.
Source: SHINE
Editor: Wang Xiang
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