China Hangzhou City is considering adopting a system of ranking people based on a series of personal information, raising concerns about privacy invasion.

Imagine a mobile application that can access your medical history and score you daily based on predefined criteria, recent health checks and living habits.

This is a plan that the city of Hangzhou, eastern China, is cherishing to implement for more than 10 million residents, inspired by the "medical code" system that the city adopted during the Covid pandemic.

Globally, governments have increased their personal data collection in the fight against nCoV.

That concern was amplified in the Hangzhou resident community when the city government announced on May 22 that it was planning to permanently use the "medical code" application.

Since February, the Chinese regime has used a "medical code" system to monitor and control people's movements and prevent the virus from spreading.

Health codes also help track users' travel information.

Hangzhou is the first city in China to use a health code system to determine which citizens need to be isolated.

At a meeting of the Hangzhou Health Commission on May 22, Sun Yongrong, the chairman of the committee, said they were seeking to establish a system that could calculate citizen scores, assign color codes and rank based on

System simulation images posted on the commission's website show that the daily health scores will range from 0 to 100, corresponding to each color in a red to green color range.

Scores may vary based on people's daily activities.

According to Sun, companies and communities can also be scored.

It is not clear how the application of data collection and scores will affect the daily lives of people and how the business operates.

Simulation of scoring application and ranking people of Hangzhou government.

"Medical history and health check data are personal information, why are they included in the medical code to show to others? Points will be deducted for smoking, drinking and sleeping.

"During the pandemic, we had no other choice but I hope after the translation, everyone will have the right to delete this application instead of popularizing it," another commented.

Some people also expressed concern about the application of information exploitation by insurance companies and marketing companies.

But many Chinese Internet users are skeptical about the feasibility of the plan, addressing technical difficulties such as how to convert different medical conditions into scores and devise appropriate algorithms.

"This is a huge step. Although Chinese people are willing to sacrifice their privacy in return for comfort, the medical score system will certainly make many users unhappy," one commentator said.