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Introduction

This article documents information of a new system introduced to cater the Chinese police departments with citizens' privacy during bank card account opening processes. Li Ao noticed that the bank may impose customers' Chinese Residential ID Card number into a new system that interconnects police departments, mobile operators' systems, and social insurance IT systems, into a unique IT data platform for police departments to collect citizens' physical activities and for bank institutions to get more insights into customer's privacy.

Symptoms

During a recent visit to a local bank branch, Li Ao noticed that the bank staff were appearantly to importing customers' data into an IT system and get details about the double-card sanctioning status of them, with a list of name, Chinese phone number and Residential ID Card number combinations of people that appears to be provided by a company containing the listed customers demanding debit cards for salary payments. Each time the staff enters a combination of NRIC card number and mobile phone number paper document was produced with an emblem used by police departments on the top left area and a URL starting with http:// at the bottom, followed by a date which was also printed. The Chinese characters of "double-card" can be easily seen on the top part of the documents.

As confirmed with the bank's staff from the responses, this system is introduced for banks to enter data of customers wanting to open debit card accounts including their Chinese Residential ID Card number and Chinese phone number, and use the responded data for evaluation of eligibility; the system returns whether or not the person is involved in investigations and cases with the matter of the so-called "fraudulent crimes," as defined by the government officials. Furthermore, as Li Ao requested a check with his own identity, she also provided warnings, giving context that frequent inquiries, which she meant for a singular person, on this system will let the police departments know that the person is "exteremely wanted to open a bank card account," which also confirms that police departments will be able to monitor data activities on this IT system.

This bank staff entered Li Ao's NRIC card number and a 11-digit fictitious phone number, 14000000000, into the system, as he sought information of double-card sanction statuses on his identity. The returned data includes, but not limited to, the following categories:

1. Whether or not currently being sanctioned by the double-card sanctioning measure;
2. Whether or not a personnel-in-flushing ("liudong renkou" in Chinese, 流动人口);
3. Whether or not the supplied phone service is recently-opened;
4. Whether or not the supplied phone number is involved in double-card criminal investigation cases;
5. Whether or not the person has social insurance.

It's unknown of the scope of social insurance covered by this subset of data, but Li Ao belie