What will happen to personal information collected in communities, supermarkets and other places after the outbreak? The government department that ordered the collection of this information will be r

What will happen to personal information collected in communities, supermarkets and other places after the outbreak? The government department that ordered the collection of this information will be responsible for the "aftermath" A few days ago, the epidemic prevention and control in novel coronavirus entered a late stage, and all localities began to gradually lift restrictions and resume production. At the same time, telecommunication network fraud seems to be active-many netizens doubt whether it is related to too much personal information collected during the epidemic.

Indeed, during this period, all personal information is required to be registered, from supermarkets to pharmacies, from residential properties to buses and subways. Name, mobile phone number and ID card are all required, which can be easily traced back to individuals accurately. If these institutions can't protect the collected personal information, the risk of flowing into the black ash production is really great.

What will happen to personal information collected in communities, supermarkets, pharmacies and other places after the outbreak? Will the government department that ordered the collection of this information be responsible for the "aftermath"?

"As long as I have the heart, I can dig out everyone's ID number."

Yingying (pseudonym) recently received a credit card fraud call, and the other party accurately told her name and ID number. She felt very strange-it was the first time that she could say her ID number word for word.

She thinks it is very likely that the personal information handed in by the recent epidemic has been leaked.

Years ago, Yingying returned to her hometown in Suizhou, Hubei Province from Beijing, and never went out after the epidemic. Recently, she was suddenly pulled into a WeChat group specially built for "Beijing detainees", with more than 100 people.

She told Southern Reporter that after the "Ms. Huang left Han for Beijing" incident, these stranded people who could not return to Beijing became the key care objects in the city. In order to facilitate management, the city requires building groups by district to facilitate information reporting. So on March 8, this group was built in her residential property.

"It is the group pulled by the staff of our community, and it is the group that the management staff of the community property let us join." Yingying said that after joining the group, everyone changed the nickname to the form of "name+phone number+residential name" as required, but usually only registered the body temperature.

However, from the date of 1 1, it is said that the city issued a notice asking everyone in the group to submit detailed personal information, including ID number, address in Beijing, current address, names of others and their relationship with themselves. "They said they were informed by their superiors, but they didn't say which one," she said.

It is worth noting that this information is sent directly to the group and can be seen by all group members. Yingying bluntly said that this method is "a bit too casual" and "too backward". "As long as I have the heart, I can find out the names, ID numbers, mobile phone numbers and family members of everyone in the group." She is very afraid of the statistical methods of community information.

Xiao Fei (a pseudonym), a netizen in Qingdao, encountered a more "wonderful" situation. In order to apply for the community pass, the property issued a registration form of residents' information, including basic name, mobile phone number, address, nationality, political outlook, education, height, blood type, marital status, micro signal and so on.

Xiao Fei community resident information registration form. Photo courtesy of respondents

"Whether the epidemic prevention and control is related to body shape, height, blood type, marriage or not, micro-signal, etc. Your house? " Xiao Fei was puzzled. "If the epidemic has passed, what's the point of collecting so much information about personal privacy and getting a pass?"

Buses, supermarkets and pharmacies are also "big collectors"

The community is far from being criticized.

In the worst period of the epidemic, residential properties may collect the most personal information. With the lifting of prevention and control, people's activities gradually returned to normal, but many places still implemented the real-name registration system, so buses, supermarkets and pharmacies also joined the ranks of "big households" in personal information collection.

During this time at home, Yingying's family caught a cold and dared not go to the hospital, so she asked her friends from other places to buy some cold medicine for her. A friend told her that the pharmacy asked to register her ID card information. In other words, the pharmacy also has Yingying's name, ID card and telephone information, and the community is not the only possible source of leakage.