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Michelle R. SmithAn AP investigation has found that authorities used technologies mobilized for COVID-19 for purposes entirely unrelated to the pandemic ā halting travel for activists and ordinary people, harassing marginalized communities and linking peopleās health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools.āÆ In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies #surveillance #pandemic https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4
Kim Spence-Jones #FBPE@mrsmith Many of us were worried that exactly this would happen. Covid-tracking tools implemented without proper safeguards have provided exactly what authoritarians have been trying to do for decades.
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Mary Ann Horn@mrsmith . DeSantis must top that list.
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[if you can't see the OP: https://journa.host/@mrsmith/109548012831391265]
[https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4]
Michelle R. Smith (@[email protected])
An AP investigation has found that authorities used technologies mobilized for COVID-19 for purposes entirely unrelated to the pandemic ā halting travel for activists and ordinary people, harassing marginalized communities and linking peopleās health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools.āÆ In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies #surveillance #pandemic https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4
Lutrulo@mrsmith Who could have ever seen this one coming!
Softwarewolf@mrsmith Here's my shocked Pikachu face
Aral Balkan@mrsmith If only some folks had warned about the very real potential of these sorts of abuses ahead of timeā¦ š¤
āOnce this is up and running, there are a lot of people who will want to get their hands on that data eventually. Donāt forget that the type of data collected is the same kind of data that the United States government uses to decide who is and isnāt a terrorist before ordering them killed using drone strikes.ā
AstroQueen@mrsmith not surprised. china especially seems at the crux of it & can't help but wonder what MAL & GOP have done in cahoots w their model of surveillance. especially with telecoms & possibly underwater Internet cables
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Peter Barnes@mrsmith
Wow, could have knocked me over with feather...
I wrote this nearly three years ago, absolutely confident that governments, bureaucracies and law enforcement would never be able to resist this temptation, given they've never resisted it in the past...
https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/trust-me-im-from-the-coalition/
acm@mrsmith
āAny intervention that increases state power to monitor individuals has a long tail and is a ratcheting system,ā said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Toronto-based internet watchdog Citizen Lab. āOnce you get it, is very unlikely it will ever go away.ā
Ouch.
JS Carter GilsonQuoteToot: Michelle R. Smith @mrsmith
An AP investigation has found that authorities used technologies mobilized for COVID-19 for purposes entirely unrelated to the pandemic ā halting travel for activists and ordinary people, harassing marginalized communities and linking peopleās health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools.āÆ In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies #surveillance #pandemic
https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4
https://union.place/@[email protected]st/109548013088912453
An AP investigation has found that authorities used technologies mobilized for COVID-19 for purposes entirely unrelated to the pandemic ā halting travel for activists and ordinary people, harassing marginalized communities and linking peopleās health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools.āÆ In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies #surveillance #pandemic
https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4
https://union.place/@[email protected]st/109548013088912453
october surprise@mrsmith you donāt say. Iām just shocked.
Old salt@mrsmith Why am I angered but not in the least bit surprised.
PortsE603@mrsmith This is next level disturbing. Right from the beginning of pandemic, I chose not to activate COVID-19 community tracking that automatically appeared my phone. Seemed too risky for data mining then, now, and in the future.
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Andrew Bartlett@mrsmith I'm really proud of how New Zealand handed this, building an app that stored data locally and only uploaded on specific user interaction.
Having actual security nerds involved made the NZ process much less invasive (and therefore risky both in terms of security and scope creep abuse) than in other countries:
https://kawaiicon.org/talks/covid-tracer/
Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/IyeDSyvYvZs?t=14094
Not that things were perfect, but they were far less invasive than the examples shown in Israel and China.
Robert Wolff@netzpolitik_feed @markus_netzpolitik Auch wenn es leider nicht mehr Ć¼berrascht, werden vielerorts CoronaĆ¼berwachungsmaĆnahmen plƶtzlich nicht mehr nur gegen Corona verwendet. Ich erinnere mich auch an FƤlle in Deutschland, Ć¼ber die ihr berichtetet.
nartimus@mrsmith oh wow. This gives a whole different insight into the protests in china.
Sean Gonsalves@mrsmith as much as we at ILSRās Community Broadband Networks team are excited about the significant potential healthcare cost savings and improved health outcomes associated with telemedicine and telehealth, this kind of stuff is really concerning. Appreciate you reporting on this issue
Benj Souleš«šHumanityFirstš
@mrsmith sounds like China