[liberationtech] Bio-Surveillance & Privacy

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

*As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets*
/Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the
doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later./

By Natasha Singer and Choe Sang-Hun
The New York Times
Published March 23, 2020
Updated March 24, 2020

    In January, South Korea began posting detailed location histories
    about people who tested positive for the coronavirus, leading to
    public blaming and shaming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/technology/coronavirus-surveillance-tracking-privacy.html

    /In South Korea, government agencies are harnessing
    surveillance-camera footage, smartphone location data and credit
    card purchase records to help trace the recent movements of
    coronavirus patients and establish virus transmission chains.//
    //
    //In Lombardy, Italy, the authorities are analyzing location data
    transmitted by citizens’ mobile phones to determine how many people
    are obeying a government lockdown order and the typical distances
    they move every day. About 40 percent are moving around “too much,”
    an official recently said.//
    //
    //In Israel, the country’s internal security agency is poised to
    start using a cache of mobile phone location data — originally
    intended for counterterrorism operations — to try to pinpoint
    citizens who may have been exposed to the virus.//
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Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
Principal Technologist &
//Distinguished Senior Research Scholar//
//Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)//
//University of Hawai'i/
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