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China has a reputation for monitoring its citizens, and various parts of the country are constantly discovering new ways to use gadgets for this purpose – RFID chips in cars, face recognition goggles and student uniform uniforms, each one being a headline in the newspapers. last year. Now you can add sanitation workers with GPS-equipped tracking wristbands to the list.

On April 3, news surfaced that sanitation workers in Nanjing, Hexi District, were being forced to wear smart wristbands to monitor not only their location at all times, but to encourage them if they stopped moving for more than 20 minutes.



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Only one day later, the South China Morning Post According to reports, public pressure had reached such a point that the local sanitation company decided to back off a bit – but only by removing the most unpleasant part of the system. Now the wristbands will no longer say "please keep working" if a worker decides to stay in one place but they will still accompany the workers in the same way.





It is not clear if this outcome will be enough to satisfy the public, but I suppose that depends on how the news is presented to them. Strangely, the Morning Post South China the headlines said: "Workers freed from monitoring after protests" and "Chinese workers freed from monitoring the Big Brother style after the public stench," none of which aligns with the facts of their own history.