China’s vast surveillance system has come to the fore in its attempt to monitor and control the spread of coronavirus.
According to official statistics, the number of newly confirmed cases in China has dropped dramatically – from thousands a day to nearly zero.
Meanwhile, a growing number of countries are also looking at using extensive surveillance systems, such as geolocation tracking to fight the pandemic.
So how exactly can surveillance tools help curb a pandemic and what are the potential pitfalls?
The BBC's Joe Tidy reports.
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Robert Choi
As if there is no such thing in UK! LOL
Robert Choi
@B00G3Y M4N Good boy! Just do it!
Robert Choi
@B00G3Y M4N Again. Do not just talking. DO IT!
爱卿爵罗·干戈
the UK just unable to do it professionally
Davis Herrera
Yeah but they cant admit it unless they convince the public its a good idea first
Al Khaholic
I feel that when this is all over we are going too find out we have lost all freedom
SpaceOutMisfit
you wont if you are free within you just open your 3RD eye
Al Khaholic
@SpaceOutMisfit my cyclops eye is shut your saying?
No Cash
Freedom to commit crime?
Al Khaholic
@No Cash play smart.
Anson G
That happens everywhere, forgot Snowdon already… and the only differ is theirs saved the people and yours did not. I choose the one who can save us though it is annoying
this guy
Id rather be dead free than safe in a prison
Thom Youtube
@LUPU DE LA CLUJ Salut
游园惊梦
@Robert Cubley “illegal organ harvesting program” Are you a primary school students?
游园惊梦
@sotojoe8 yes,yes,you are right,it look like it did take your brain,i am so sorry for this.
Carlos Brown
Your a sheep anson it’s control take your freedom away and they are testing it out with some fake virus or a virus that is not that bad at all
K King
The Mark of the Beast System~!!! Never take the Mark~!
PuppetMaster
So I am on an insane planet.
rudy Lopez
Agreed
jhill
PuppetMaster yes
Ὓὄὗʀ L·ἷғἔ Ṃᾄҭҭἔʀṩ
Amen… Amen… Amen… This world is that of the devil. The devil is the god of this world. Listen closely people. It’s written & prophesied in the bible, what is happening now & will happen. Repent & refuse the mark.
PuppetMaster
If anybody helped the elite take control over this world its the bullshit of the bible and its tyranny of control over humans trough programming the superego
TootMaimington
Why would the BBC try and sell and market the benefits of mass surveillance? Hmmm.
010mercurials
TootMaimington for real
010mercurials
Peter Barton we have been taxed voluntarily I will not give any news company a dime
Cyber Slim
How is the BBC selling what we don’t already have?
Prabhat
BBC IS SOLD TO CHINESE CCP. NO DOUBT IN THAT
ssdfrs ohuiu
Chinese government don’t care about freedoms and dignities of individuals, that’s why the the pandemic originated in China, in beginning they lied and hid, when it turned serious, they took measures against the epidemic regardless of the costs, actually it’s Chinese people who pay for the costs, for example, if somewhere a confirmed case found, All close contacts must be quarantined and tested, at their own expense. Coming back from abroad or other provinces? you must have 14 days of quarantine at a designated hotel, at your own expense. Moreover, Chinese government tried to deny that the virus originated in China, but refused to be investigated by other countries, and plant the origin on other countries.
China’s success in fighting the pandemic has been built on massive human rights violations. What the government needed to do was just giving some orders, then almost all restaurants, cinemas and entertainment venues were forced to shut down for months, without any compensation. People were locked up in their housing estates if confirmed cases found there, had to buy raised price food delivered in. Other residential areas without cases, there were also restrictions on getting in and out. In many countries governments gave people cash subsidies, in China it’s impossible. Chinese government hadn’t and wouldn’t ever give one cent to people, despite China’s huge foreign exchange reserves. there is no substantial assistances, only symbolic, such as rent relief initiative, or consumption promotion coupons, 20 off for 100, etc, the payer of the discount may even not be the government.
Nevertheless, the Chinese government don’t forget the domestic and external propaganda, claiming that only the Chinese system and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party can defeat the pandemic.
supersonic
…BBC yelling about the issue like London itself wasn’t one of the most cctv camera saturated city in the world
supersonic
@Finne Jesse there’s always something behind the scenes…
Josiah Wong
London are using CCTV cameras to cashing out millions millions unjust fines
ssdfrs ohuiu
Chinese government don’t care about freedoms and dignities of individuals, that’s why the the pandemic originated in China, in beginning they lied and hid, when it turned serious, they took measures against the epidemic regardless of the costs, actually it’s Chinese people who pay for the costs, for example, if somewhere a confirmed case found, All close contacts must be quarantined and tested, at their own expense. Coming back from abroad or other provinces? you must have 14 days of quarantine at a designated hotel, at your own expense. Moreover, Chinese government tried to deny that the virus originated in China, but refused to be investigated by other countries, and plant the origin on other countries.
China’s success in fighting the pandemic has been built on massive human rights violations. What the government needed to do was just giving some orders, then almost all restaurants, cinemas and entertainment venues were forced to shut down for months, without any compensation. People were locked up in their housing estates if confirmed cases found there, had to buy raised price food delivered in. Other residential areas without cases, there were also restrictions on getting in and out. In many countries governments gave people cash subsidies, in China it’s impossible. Chinese government hadn’t and wouldn’t ever give one cent to people, despite China’s huge foreign exchange reserves. there is no substantial assistances, only symbolic, such as rent relief initiative, or consumption promotion coupons, 20 off for 100, etc, the payer of the discount may even not be the government.
Nevertheless, the Chinese government don’t forget the domestic and external propaganda, claiming that only the Chinese system and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party can defeat the pandemic.
supersonic
@ssdfrs ohuiu amazing story
supersonic
@Forest Giovanni no. get lost with your crap
RR Extra
Here comes the agenda.
JulianaKim PH
HERE COMES THE AGENDA
ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΝΟΜΑΣΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ
@Fê Boaventura Usa handled the coronavirus better than China, China wants to enforce the mark of the beast also people fight Donald Trump because he is against their satanic agendas
ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΝΟΜΑΣΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ
@Rebell i Us Soul Usa handled the coronavirus better than China, China wants to enforce the mark of the beast also people fight Donald Trump because he is against their satanic agendas, also big brother is the wicked one
Rebell i Us Soul
@ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΝΟΜΑΣΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Troll, stop repeating yourself ain’t no body got time for you.
Z Kevin
Haha. BBC style: it is good but it is bad when used by CCP
wang thirty
@Last First don’t go to extreme dude. dictatorship could perform better in some aspect. demacrocy can do worse in some aspect too. in the fact,most of countries on this planet apply democracy. how many of them get prosperous?
Haorui Chen
@Archibald Maule Ramsay The first question is merely repetition so just have a look at the reply of our ambassador : )
You may find government of Germany hiding more number of deaths (XD) but any way for the second question: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200401-coronavirus-why-death-and-mortality-rates-differ
Seppo CHEN
Of course. You don’t live in Mainland China so you may don’t know how cruel CCP is.
Guorhao Lin
LoL 老双标人了
ssdfrs ohuiu
Chinese government don’t care about freedoms and dignities of individuals, that’s why the the pandemic originated in China, in beginning they lied and hid, when it turned serious, they took measures against the epidemic regardless of the costs, actually it’s Chinese people who pay for the costs, for example, if somewhere a confirmed case found, All close contacts must be quarantined and tested, at their own expense. Coming back from abroad or other provinces? you must have 14 days of quarantine at a designated hotel, at your own expense. Moreover, Chinese government tried to deny that the virus originated in China, but refused to be investigated by other countries, and plant the origin on other countries.
China’s success in fighting the pandemic has been built on massive human rights violations. What the government needed to do was just giving some orders, then almost all restaurants, cinemas and entertainment venues were forced to shut down for months, without any compensation. People were locked up in their housing estates if confirmed cases found there, had to buy raised price food delivered in. Other residential areas without cases, there were also restrictions on getting in and out. In many countries governments gave people cash subsidies, in China it’s impossible. Chinese government hadn’t and wouldn’t ever give one cent to people, despite China’s huge foreign exchange reserves. there is no substantial assistances, only symbolic, such as rent relief initiative, or consumption promotion coupons, 20 off for 100, etc, the payer of the discount may even not be the government.
Nevertheless, the Chinese government don’t forget the domestic and external propaganda, claiming that only the Chinese system and the leadership of the Communist Party can defeat the pandemic.
TP 87
It’s a good thing that nothing at all like this happens in the UK. Nothing at all.
Rexbelum
Welcome to the new world order
Joshuahj Farquharm.
Just wait until they eliminate cash.
Taher Syed
@Joshuahj Farquharm. I was just thinking about physical money regarding the crisis.
Carlos Brown
It’s true there 100% going to stop cash and it’s for those that are doing crime or making any money from even selling there personal items they want to keep people down
Sean Tmme
China just uses it brightly, and no one thinks about how to commit a crime.
ConspiracyTheorist
Don’t justify this.
Savvy
ConspiracyTheorist better than doing nothing
Josiah Wong
While UK is not safe, and the UK government is struggling to provide PPE to the doctors
Ghost town
It’s effectively putting a whole nation on an electronic tag.
Ghost town
@Natural Born Chiller
Your not wrong! We have some of the highest amount of cctv anywhere. However our BBC is too busy pointing the finger at other country’s.
Ghost town
@Andrew Zone
🤣🤣🤣
010mercurials
Delicious Experience start bro people need to know what’s happening they think everything will go back to normal
AWResistance
Now it’s all starting to make sense.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
LMN
Coronavirus might not even exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2xb_Bho8K0
whatever the case, it’s being used to bring in a global surveillance state
Simon Vardy
It made sense back in 2003 during the SARs outbreak. CCP enforced new Surveillance and public monitoring laws without public consent.
BJFA
Google does that already. but not the virus aspect. all our movement and activity recorded at google
Kim-Jong Un 1 million subs or I declare war
XXX does that already. Kiss ur vegana from India
Walter Pinkman
Only if you carry a smart phone.
毛逸人
Facebook does that too.
milkkk y
One of my foreign friends asked me why China controlled the pandemic so quickly while they could not.I showed him a set of numbers.
A total of 170,000 medical aid teams and local medical staff were provided, and the subsidy was 200 yuan per person per day, which added up to 34 million a day. The cost of a set of protective clothing is 300 yuan. Even if one suit is used for two day, each person needed at least 20 sets during the entire epidemic period, and the cost exceeded 1 billion yuan.The cost of treating severely ill patients was conservatively estimated at 300,000 to 500,000 yuan, and the treatment more than 80,000 nationwide cases are paid by the government.Building new ICU hospitals and mobile cabin Hospital, closure of all cities, nationally fighting the epidemic every day from late January to March was equivalent to a medium-scale war.By mid-March, China’s anti-epidemic investment from governments was up to 116.9 billion yuan, roughly 16.7 billion dollars, the highest in the world.
Why did China controll epidemic so well that the speed of epidemic control has never been in medical history? Because in our blood, we never gave up any one person in every calamity. It’s nothing to do with the so-called political systems, but the greatest power from people and cultural heritage.
Armando Onyx
You all prolly dont give a damn but does someone know a trick to get back into an instagram account??
I was dumb lost the account password. I love any tips you can give me!
Kason Nikolas
@Armando Onyx instablaster 🙂
Armando Onyx
@Kason Nikolas i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and im trying it out now.
Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
Armando Onyx
@Kason Nikolas it worked and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thank you so much you really help me out 😀
Kason Nikolas
@Armando Onyx Glad I could help 🙂
Sims Tt_tony
All the grey filters BBC put on when reporting everything about China, classic
Aviah Veredusa
And this is the beginning of how big brother will always be watching us. Because big brother will save us from corona virus.
Socom Security Tutorials
I watch the bbc for a good laugh every now and then.
董冠男
真是难为编辑了,这黑的角度也太刁钻了吧(。>ㅿ<。)
Jie Su
董冠男
西媒最大的特点,带料。
打个比方,为了说你嫖娼,他会说我在怡红院门口看到你了,但他不会说只是看到你路过了🤪
Siyaasi
The irony Brits talking about surveillance there is half a Million CCTV cameras in London alone Blessing People 24/7
R.O.C
Our ancestors didn’t fight Two world wars for this to be our future. This is disgusting.
Chris Chi
yet London police can’t trace a bike using the camera. Good job.
RoOtS McDuCk
@Chris Chi they could, they just don’t care
张东
Unfortunately ,Half a million are not enough.
flaxious
@Matthew Sharpe They are doing it step by very small step – boiling us slowly like frogs – just go outside and see how many sheep are brainwashed and obey – there isn’t much hope 🙁