HONG KONG -- A Chinese government proposal to issue individual online identifiers to citizens has sparked concerns that authorities could use the system to further tighten already strict social control.
A draft of the measure says individuals would use the National Network Identity Authentication (NNIA), a trial application already launched on app stores earlier this year, to obtain a cyberspace ID composed of letters and numbers along with a "cyberspace certificate." This would be used for authentication on internet platforms.
