[liberationtech] Harvard launches contact tracing app

[Richard Brooks]

Related news:

Am annoyed by the Tik Tok flap.

What is the difference between Tik Tok and all the other
surveillance capitalism infrastructure? (Facebook, Amazon,
Google, Microsoft, etc.)

And the Tik Tok content is lip-synch videos.

I think there are 2 issues:
1. pay back for Kpop-stans sabotaging Tulsa, and
2. FAGM, etc. share with US gov. and not PRC.

To date FAGM spying has damaged US national security
much more than PRC.

Also, I thought Republicans always said their brand was
about free trade and the government not picking winners
and losers in the market place.

On 8/7/20 5:17 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote:
> This is really awful, George Orwell’s and Michel Foucault’s worst
> nightmare: “24x7 ubiquitous surveillance” unless you decide to go
> off-grid and drink Labbatt’s in the Canadian wilderness
> 
> Regards / Saludos / Grato
> 
> Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
> 
>> On Aug 7, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> From the article:
>>
>> Harvard began piloting Tracefi — a Wi-Fi-based contact tracing system
>> — this past Friday in preparation for freshmen and a select group of
>> upperclassmen students’ return to campus later this month.
>>
>> Tracefi uses the signals phones, laptops, and tablets constantly emit
>> to Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructures to gather three pieces of
>> information: a datetime stamp, the signal strength received by
>> Harvard’s Wi-Fi infrastructure, and the MAC address of the mobile
>> device. The system then stores the data for up to 28 days.
>>
>> Harvard will use the Tracefi data to aid contract tracing efforts run
>> by Harvard University Health Services and Harvard University
>> Information Technology by providing information to human contact
>> tracers about the specific whereabouts of infected individuals.
>>
>> https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/8/2/tracefi-wifi-contract-tracing-coronavirus/
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