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Rush hour, congestion, a normal evening in Chinese metropolis of Suzhou. The 31-year-old engineer Qiu sits in car and is stuck. But Qiu has fun. In forced break he lives his digital life. Per WeChat, Chinese Multifunktionsapp, Albert he has with friends that he barely has time to meet; He agrees to dinner with his also working wife to order it from an online supplier; Or he just bills.
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The Qius are modern Chinese city dwellers, digitalization characterizes ir everyday life to a degree that is not comparable with Europe or USA. The payment via smartphone is standard in China, wher supermarket, subway, electricity bill, hospital visit, taxi or Government gang. The phase of cashless payment with card has simply been skipped in China. A few years ago it was still joking, soon to give alms to beggars only by smartphone. Today is reality: Scan QR code, enter pin, ready.
The Alipay and WeChat accounts, two most important digital payment systems of China from houses Alibaba and Tencent, make possible. The two technology companies are among largest internet monopolies in country with search engine Baidu. Their success is also due to fact that state almost excludes US companies such as Facebook, Amazon or PayPal from Chinese internal market.
Tencent and Alibaba can access a gigantic pool of resources
What distinguishes China’s digital market, but above all from that in Europe and United States, is that Chinese deal with ir personal data extremely relaxed. People like Qiu are not afraid of data misuse. Rar fatalistic asks: “Do you know a better idea about smartphone?” In doing so, Tencent and Alibaba can access a gigantic pool of information, which gives you a minute of detail about what your customers are shopping for and where y are. Of course, Google or Facebook do that in or countries as well. But difference is that in China state or ruling Communist Party has access to data of citizens.
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Digital payment service providers such as Alipay have become competitors of state banks, so y have to place ir operations on central bank since 2017. The state wants to know at all times what citizens are doing with ir money. And long before funds were subjected to direct state supervision, government in Beijing had already reserved right to monitor content of citizens ‘ communication in order to intervene and censor, if necessary, immediately.
All providers of online portals are obliged to store data for at least half a year. Every word must be traceable to a real person. In blogs and forums, providers and moderators are liable if someone posts in your domain something that censors do not like. Recently, this chain liability has been extended to smartphone chats like those of WeChat. Again, if administrator of a chat group does not delete something supposedly suspicious or not quickly enough, does not report incident or does not notify control authority in time or does not show offender, he or his company gets in trouble With authorities.
The Chinese react to se controlled by digitising everyday life differently. Many are looking forward to increasing comfort and competitive advantage: We in China, y say, are already world champions of cashless society, while west is plagued by endless data protection debates. And y are looking forward to more security. Pickpockets are now unemployed, y say, and countless surveillance cameras have been holding every scam. With upcoming expansion of face detection, you would become perfect monitoring tool against offenders.
