One overlooked fact is that Zhao’s information had already made its way onto the Internet before the official briefing on the epidemic.
It is on December 7, at 11 PM, a to “preliminary investigation ” at the beginning of screenshots appeared on twitter. In this screenshot, Zhao Yu’s extraordinarily detailed information about her COVID-19 diagnosis — age, home address, ID number, and whereabouts, down to a few points and minutes over the past three days — suddenly became freely republished — the moment she lost all control of her privacy.
It all started when Zhao’s grandmother came to the hospital for tests and was diagnosed with COVID-19, and she, as a close contact, tested positive for nucleic acid in an isolation test. In order to cooperate with the epidemic prevention department to do the investigation, she told the staff her most detailed track in the past few days, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a sharp weapon to hurt herself.
At 7am on The 8th, the official bulletin released brief information about three confirmed cases and one asymptomatic infected person. In the bulletin, Zhao Yu, as one of the three confirmed patients, was released where she stayed, which almost matched the track shown in the screenshots. Soon, “chengdu confirmed cases granddaughter ” on the microblogging hot search.
The discussion on this topic was first interpreted as an argument — Zhao Yu’s grandmother went to the hospital for a check-up on The 6th, but she went to the bar on the 6th, knowing that her grandmother was a suspected case, and went there on purpose, apparently for motives that were not pure. This question with the abuse, is under this hot search topic, Zhao Yu was detained on the destroy chengdu epidemic prevention results “hat. However, one fact less noticed is that Zhao’s grandmother Lu went to the hospital on the afternoon of December 6 for a check-up due to cough and sputum. The diagnosis was made on December 7, while Zhao Yu went to a bar on the evening of December 5 and early in the morning of December 6, not knowing that her grandmother had been diagnosed with THE new coA. On December 7, after my grandmother was diagnosed with COVID-19, she also went to the fever clinic of the hospital for a test.
Second, a young girl to several bars at night it is infinite amplification, “20 ”, , “four bar ”, , “has no fixed occupation ”, in an instant the Zhao Yu caught in the storm to talk about her private life. Someone put her trajectory in four bar on the map together, said she incredibly can ferry so many a night, and tagged queen “transitions ”, “disorderly alluding to her private life. These four words were also put on some other unrelated videos, which were originally about different girls dancing in a disco, or someone making some indecent actions. The person who forwarded the video said that it was Zhao Yu. In a way, Ms. Chao was the chosen one. The official bulletin, which included the movements of two other people diagnosed with the disease and an asymptomatic infected person, was not discussed as Ms. Chao was.
Because leak privacy and double shame fireball, Zhao Yu during the period of isolation, has already faced “social death ”. In an interview for the cover story, she said she’s been getting calls every day since. “more time, one minute has six ”, so that the hospital staff dozen come over, her phone is busy. At the same time, she has received various messages and weibo comments attacking her life.
You can see the horror and uncertainty of this young girl in the face of all this. She emptied her weibo, turned off the friends WeChat application permissions, using a mobile phone number and WeChat ID search, only see “the user does not exist ”. In headlines, she released a short statement, said he can’t understand online slander abuse, because “I just accidentally infected with the new champions league, I am also a victim. but the final declaration, “she apologized: ” here am I apologize to the citizens of chengdu, bring you trouble, broke the people originally quiet life… ”
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On December 9, Zhao Yu again issued two pieces of information in today’s headlines, “online said I a night ferry four bars, ferry is actually before I work in a bar. I didn’t go to four shows a day. That night I went to a bar with a friend, had a drink, and then went home. , “she says she is responsible for the atmosphere of the marketing work in the bar before, but she was honest and not to stop violence. But further stigmatized. Someone with a couple of puzzling screenshots, says Zhao Yu “professional hostess ”, it has even been carrying moral sticks, said to do the job, certainly “ sleeping with a lot of people ”.
S, who works in Chengdu, does not understand the news on the Internet. She is a fresh graduate and likes to go to bars at ten o ‘clock at night. Because I like dancing, but I don’t have a suitable venue at ordinary times. The music of the bar has been selected, which is very suitable for dancing. When there is a very fried song, all the people in the whole hall start to cheer and fight for the most conspicuous place to dance. For she and her friends, bar provides a place, “people who want to be seen to be seen, people who want to hide to hide. “sometimes friend brokenhearted, jump the drink began to cry, for S, ” bar is a place to allow young people gaffe “.
Going to bars is a hobby, she insists, which is nothing to be ashamed of. “think go to the pub is in order to extract, is also a kind of prejudice. “see Zhao Yu because transitions be scold, her first reaction feel puzzling, this is very normal in their lives, a bar of music is not good to listen, or wine, will be a few people together to a car, change a bar to continue.
The actions and occupations in question are nothing new in the city where Zhao lives. Chengdu, for its part, opened its first club in 1992, and within 25 years, it is now the city with the most bars in China, with 2,294, 200 more than Shanghai, which ranks second. It is also an inclusive, hormone-coated city that has hosted tattoo shows, spawned hip-hop artists and groups, and regularly sees young people in Hanfu and cosplay on the streets.
In Chengdu, ambiance marketing is common in bars. ‘The bar likes to recruit good-looking girls who like to dance,’ said the operating director of one of the bars Ms. Zhao visited. ‘They dance on the dance floor, and they can quickly set the atmosphere on fire, and people can quickly get into that mood.’
On the evening of December 9, S went to Playhouse, which Zhao Yu visited on the evening of December 6. On weekdays, there are a lot of cars parked outside the gate and they are open all night until 6 a.m. On this day, however, there are plenty of police around the bar, and there aren’t many cars outside at 9 p.m. Now that all the disco bars in Chengdu are closed, young people like S are waiting for them to reopen.
At the end of the day, Zhao doesn’t need to apologize. She has a life of her own, and young people go to bars or work as ambiance marketers without breaking any laws. As the Chengdu Daily said in an article on Zhao’s behalf, a 20-year-old Woman from Chengdu was just an ordinary young person in a city of more than 21 million before she was diagnosed.
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In this furore, zhao Yu is not the only one vilified.
At noon on December 8, yaoyao received a message from her fans on WeChat, saying that her photo was taken as zhao yu and went viral in WeChat group. Fans have sent her screenshots of WeChat, and they’ve commented on her looks and hurled curses at her. Fans to her to clarify, “weibo are hanged a ”.
F, 19, 130000 followers on weibo, in news after 5 minutes, she quickly sent a weibo, “take photo spread said my new crown, this joke can literally open? “in life, she is a graphic model, were in sanya.
After issuing the clarification weibo, Yaoyao reported to the police, contacted the police station, the reply is not their control. A lawyer told DailyPeople that under similar circumstances, relevant departments can be asked to delete the insulting and defamatory remarks on the Internet, but the crime of insulting and defamation is a crime of private prosecution, which requires the victim to file a lawsuit in the court, and the cost of safeguarding rights is very high. At too high a cost of safeguarding one’s rights, self-help in cyberspace is hard, but it is too easy to attack others with bullets fired by simply tapping a keyboard.
Zhao yu’s case is not unique. Since the beginning of COVID-19, the identity information of those diagnosed has always been released in a certain way, and their trajectory has become the material for ridicule and even abuse on the Internet.
In November, less than a day after the patient was diagnosed at Shanghai pudong Airport, an investigation document showing his height, weight, address and even the size of his apartment was posted online. In the document, the id number of both his girlfriend and her friend were published.
The disclosure of the information of those diagnosed means that their future life will be seriously affected and even suffer social death.
At the end of January, a family of four from Fujian returned home from Wuhan and, unaware of the epidemic, took part in the banquet of a thousand clans in the village. In February, a family of four was diagnosed, their pre-diagnosis tracks were made public, and 3,000 people attending the party were ordered to be quarantined. Soon, the incident became a hot search on Weibo, and they were tagged as jinjiang Poison King. Gossip, from a person infected a village, to infect a town, evolved into a person infected the entire Jinjiang. Photos of the family of seven were printed and posted on the street corners. In fact, only 11 people have been diagnosed in their entire village, six of them family members.
In March, a man in Zhengzhou, China, who returned from Italy, concealed his departure information. After being diagnosed with COVID-19, his ID number, home address, work unit, flight number and even his parents’ phone number were made public in an internal investigation report. The document circulated on the Internet, and he was labeled “The Poison King of Zhengzhou.” Soon, his picture was publicly, carried the nation “, , “ignorant price ” become some since the media describe his eye-catching title. He was later sentenced to one year and six months for concealing the document, but no one has questioned whether the publication of the document was justified.
Luo Dongyan, a law professor at Tsinghua University, once told DailyPeople that personal information is actually an individual right that should be protected by law. “can identify when a information to you, on the basis of identifiable sex. If separate or combine to a specific natural person can be recognized, this is the law to protect information. “we face data, whereabouts trajectory and shopping records, belong to this category.
However, the fact is that since the cat abuse incident in 2006, the public participated together and released the identity information of ordinary people indiscriminately for the purpose of the Internet wanted, which seemed to be a kind of carnival to promote justice and gave some legitimacy to the information disclosure. People who have been harmed by the human flesh search are rarely heard in the public space, and in this outbreak, such information leakage has been accompanied by the outbreak of panic culminating.
The boundaries of privacy have receded in this epidemic, with potentially even more dire consequences. Luo has said that this outbreak has collected a lot of ID numbers, and then you can imagine a wave of crime. “telecom fraud, as this year, this kind of fraud than previous percentage dozens of growth every year. The public just doesn’t know, he didn’t get you. ”
On December 9th in the afternoon, police said, December 7, 2020, 23 PM, wang mou (male, 24 years old) will be a piece of content involves “chengdu outbreak and zhao mou some identity information, activities, track ” images in their own weibo forwarding, serious infringement of privacy, cause bad social influence, due to the violation of the law of the People’s Republic of China on public security administration punishment law regulations, wang mou has been the police administrative punishment according to law.
But those screenshots with Zhao’s personal privacy remain in the online world forever, unable to be eliminated.
(Zhao Yu, S and Yaoyao are pseudonyms in this article)
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