A few days ago, a notice of "reporting for returnees for the New Year" issued by a community in Zhifang Street, Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province circulated on the Internet and sparked heated discussions, requiring "daily investigation, daily summary" of the personal information, place of work and reason for returning to the hometown. On January 10, the street involved issued a statement saying that the incident was caused by the community staff's "misunderstanding, simple working methods, and lax control by the community leader", and the community had been ordered to withdraw the notice.
Returning home to report again? Could it be that not reporting has become a "malicious return to the hometown"?People who have experienced three years of the pandemic were shocked by a community notice with a keyword that was eye-catching enough. The public's lingering apprehension about "returning to their hometowns for reporting" stems from the common cherishing of the return of society to normal and the country entering a new stage, and is also a keen intuition of citizens about the protection of personal information in the context of the rule of law.
Strictly speaking, the above-mentioned notice has already revealed some signals from the beginning that "this report is not reported by the other", such as the information collection agency is the street judicial office, which has little to do with epidemic prevention and control, but the legality and reasonableness of the so-called accountability for "non-reporting" are very debatable.
However, according to the Shaanxi Provincial Measures for the Administration of Residence Permits and Services for Floating Population, issued in 2017, "living in the home of a relative with a local household registration for less than 30 days" is a statutory circumstance in which residence registration may not be processed. Speaking of which, the service management of mobile personnel, which seems to be barely able to connect, cannot be closely aligned with the aforementioned "return to the hometown".
The notice of returning home to the hometown, which seems to be a "misunderstanding", cannot be prevaricated with the same vague response. According to local officials, the community workers involved issued a "shocking word" notice because of a "misunderstanding bias", and the so-called "misunderstanding" obviously refers to a management information that does exist. According to upstream news reports, due to the fact that "there are more migrant workers returning to Yangxian County during the Chinese New Year", the local community is required to do a good job of social safety and stability based on safety considerations. According to the previous statement of the sub-district office, even returning to the hometown to report belongs to the category of "community autonomy".
If the request to return to the hometown for reporting is only a certain intention of "community autonomy", the basic principles and procedures for collecting citizens' personal information in the Personal Information Protection shall be followed. The law clearly stipulates that the processing of personal information shall follow the principles of legality, legitimacy, necessity and good faith, and personal information shall not be processed through misleading, fraud, coercion or other means. For those who only stay for a short time and visit relatives and friends to return to their hometowns during the Chinese New Year, why do they have to make such a big move and wait for them?
The Spring Festival holiday is approaching, and it is a normal civil right to return to the hometown to visit relatives, and how to receive and serve the returnees well in the local governance of the population undertaking the place is indeed a test of the vision and level of local governance. Some places are taking the opportunity to send out invitations to returnees for tourism and investment, trying their best to connect with each other, and some places may still hold some kind of rigid control ideas, eager to grasp everyone's actions and information in the palm of their hands, which is an extremely disturbing signal that requires the vigilance of the whole society.
Returning home for the Chinese New Year should not be guarded against, even if there is no "understanding bias", this kind of top-down monitoring or arbitrary control is unacceptable. The foothold of mobile services and management should and must be services and nothing else. Intimidation of those who do not report will only dissipate the original purpose of public services and tarnish the image of the local community.