Hello there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, surveillance technology are governments using the virus as an excuse to snoop on us?

We are in danger of becoming a society under routine civilians and accepting it as such.

And this is unacceptable in a democratic state.

From Israel to China to around the Western world,

many governments are using mobile phone tracking against coronavirus. One controversial firm

is offering facial recognition technology to help them. With policing, we have found that the

upside has been tremendous. We've caught child molesters, we've caught murderers,

we've caught all kinds of bad guys. And, you know, why we've worked on the coronavirus thing,

because we think that the trade-offs are the same. That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC. Chinese airports, which these days aren't quite like they used to be.

There are checks and there are more checks here in Shanghai.

Your temperature measured before you board and after you land.

Plus, swabs down your throat to test for coronavirus.

There are two people for the first temperature check and the second temperature check.

So after that, they distinguish who is having fever, who is not having fever,

and then they distribute those people to different places.

That's Emily Chung. She's a Hong Kong-based businesswoman who last month found herself

quarantined in Shanghai after extended travel across Europe. It did sound like the experience did

involve a hefty transfer of her digital identity. They asked us to register with our Vchats to scan the QR code.

You know, QR code is kind of like everything in China.

We pay with QR code.

We do everything with QRCO.

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