ID Cards in China: Your Worst Nightmare: In China Your ID Card Knows Everything

Presented at 30C3 (2013), Dec. 29, 2013, 12:45 p.m. (60 minutes)

Imagine getting pulled over for running a stop sign and learning for the first time – from the cop – that you are HIV-positive. People in China are required to carry electronic, swipeable ID cards that hold their political views, their HIV status, their mental health situation, and much more.

We'll examine the history of these cards, where the data is housed, who can access it, what vulnerabilities might exist in this system, what can be done about it, and what it means for human rights.

Presenters:

• Kate Krauss
  AIDS activist who now runs an NGO focused on AIDS cure research. A leader in the groundbreaking direct action organization ACT UP. Also organized several international campaigns that successfully freed major human rights activists in China from detention (coverage appeared on front page of the New York Times), and which lead to an obsession with finding ways to protect activists from government surveillance. (Note: The first person ever cured of AIDS was in Berlin in 2007.)

Links:

• https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5543.html

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