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TOKYO/NEW YORK/HONG KONG — The November protests in China against President Xi Jinping’s draconian zero-COVID strategy made global headlines as the biggest public act of anti-government resistance in decades.

Victims of what could be one of China’s largest financial scandals found themselves unable to step outside to join planned protests because their health QR codes had turned red, reigniting fears that the large-scale data collected for contact tracing would be abused for other uses.

Whether they realize it or not, about 200 million people in the United States now likely have access to a Covid-19 digital vaccine card.

Police in southern China have been captured on camera parading four alleged offenders through the streets in a public shaming exercise.