A Chinese citizen shared a personal experience on social media that reveals how tightly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is monitoring its people.
A local Disease Prevention and Control Center called him when he was on a long-distance bus. He didn’t answer the call as he was on another call. Then the center called the person sitting next to him and asked that person to inform him to answer its call.
However, the person in the next-seat didn’t buy a ticket at the bus station (where the authorities could have collected his contact information). He just got on the bus and bought the ticket. So how did the authorities find out about him in order to call him?
A netizen’s comment explained that the CCP has installed a camera on all trains and buses. They can first locate its target person and then zoom in to see the person next to him. Then, using facial recognition to identify the second person they can pull up his contact information. Another commentator said that, even ten years ago, the CCP had installed at least five cameras on each bus, so that they could monitor the bus. The CCP can also trace the mobile phone location to confirm whether a person is on a bus.
Another netizen shared a similar experience. Last month, he drove his friend’s car to Henan Province. The Disease Prevention and Control Center called him to ask him when he went there, but the center didn’t call his friend first. So somehow the authorities had the ability to tell that he was the actual driver of the car.
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Excerpt in Chinese:
5月20日，大陆一民众在社交媒体上发帖披露了一段经历：他在乘坐汽车时，疾控中心给他打去电话，由于他正处于通话状态，因此他没有接听这通电话，结果，疾控中心通过车载摄像头找到坐在他旁边的人，并给这个人打去电话，让这个人告诉他，接听疾控中心电话。
让他感到奇怪的是，邻座这个人不是在车站买的票，而是在半路上车的，之前没有留下可联系的任何信息，疾控中心是怎样找到邻座的联系方式。最后他感叹，“感觉现在我们都是在裸奔啊。”
网民Ding则讲述了他类似的经历，“上个月开朋友的车去河南，也是疾控中心给我打电话，问我什么时候去的（河南），没给我朋友打电话！直接给我打的。”
也有网民说：中共把所有的摄像头都联网了，包括高铁、公交车及个人自己安装的摄像头，“只需要搜索A的图像就能知道A目前在哪里，然后会看到A傍边有个B，再点击B的图像，B的资料、联系方式就出来了。”
网路观察人士古河21日对大纪元表示，中共早在十年前就已经在中巴大巴上安装监控摄像头了，“一个车上不止一个摄像头，据我所知，大概至少有五六个，这些摄像头的图像直接联网以后，通过大数据运算，可以直接根据你的脸型识别出你是什么人，你带着手机肯定是联网的，手机这个信号定位后马上就知道了。不过，一般的像我们这个出去坐的中巴车上的摄像头，它并不是直接联网，是把它记录到记录仪里面，然后需要的时候，公安可以随时调用。”
Source: Epoch Times, May 22, 2020
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/5/22/n12130212.htm