[liberationtech] Bio-Surveillance & Privacy

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In USAUK ? NSA/GCHQ?...

Corona is just excuse justification for average ppl to understand why 
surveillance needed to be do from the government so as for ppl who are 
rising awareness against government surveillance.

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.//
>      //
>      //
>      //    [ .... ]/
> 
> --/
> 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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