Michelle R. SmithAn AP investigation has found that authorities used technologies mobilized for COVID-19 for purposes entirely unrelated to the pandemic — halting travel for activists and ordinary people, harassing marginalized communities and linking people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools. In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies #surveillance #pandemic https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4
Sean Gonsalves@mrsmith as much as we at ILSR’s 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
@seanalan thanks for reading. I’m just sharing the good work of my colleagues at AP who reported it: Garance Burke, Joe Federman, Huizhong Wu, Krutika Pathi and Rod McGuirk. I don’t think any of them are on Mastodon (yet!)
@mrsmith key word - yet… I hope