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"The system monitors phone signals to alert police and local officials if those in home quarantine move away from their address or turn off their phones.. Authorities will contact or visit those who trigger an alert within 15 minutes." https://t.co/X6LXpToiH4
— Alice Su (@aliceysu) March 23, 2020
Even with the best of intentions, we must remember that no program is so permanent as a government program. Crises management without an eye to the future stands to erode civil liberties in ways we may not be able to easily roll back.https://t.co/jua6gT3wR4
— ₿ Michelle Ray ₿ (@RagnarsMate) March 23, 2020
Location tracking through cellphone tower triangulation has led to convictions based on data later shown to be false in the US, well documented by @EFF. I agree quarantined people need to be tracked, but the ins and outs of doing it well is not the tech utopia you imagine https://t.co/q1GymxMK9c
— Yuan Yang (@YuanfenYang) March 23, 2020
I once wrote an article on TechCrunch about how, eventually, we’d all be required by law to carry a mobile device at all times to be tracked. It’s inevitable. Was mocked. https://t.co/jcFrVJVowh
— Michael Arrington (@arrington) March 22, 2020
“We could so easily end up in a situation where we empower local, state or federal government to take measures in response to this pandemic that fundamentally change the scope of American civil rights," said Albert Fox Cahn, exec. director of @STOPSpyingNY https://t.co/MQx8opQH51
— Albert Fox Cahn? (@FoxCahn) March 23, 2020
A critical discussion right now and for the next, well, forever:
— Christopher Mims ? (@mims) March 23, 2020
How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis https://t.co/XTOmSYhLBj
vs.
As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets https://t.co/jJJTHUExy4
Remarkable state capacity ? https://t.co/KI9shjJ3KS
— Shamika Ravi (@ShamikaRavi) March 22, 2020
When @sidneyfussell asked for my thoughts on enhancing surveillance to fight disease, I emphasized that creating Covid-19 response infrastructure incentivizes companies to find creative ways to benefit from mission creep. https://t.co/YoSxQar4aL
— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) March 21, 2020
true but understates the case— it’s not just our peace of mind at risk, it’s physical safety, protections for fairness & due process, & protections against discrimination & exploitation. injured dignity shouldn’t be minimized but it’s not the primary harm.https://t.co/z1JigugUqW pic.twitter.com/g1L04pujWW
— Lindsey Barrett (@LAM_Barrett) March 23, 2020
As the world races to contain the coronavirus, many countries are using digital surveillance. Tracking entire populations now could open the doors to more invasive tracking later. https://t.co/yOVhzw80u1
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 23, 2020
The solution many of you are begging for. https://t.co/dVx4SaOxpJ
— Michael Arrington (@arrington) March 22, 2020
More surveillance is not the answer.
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) March 23, 2020
More surveillance is not the answer.
More surveillance is not the answer.
More surveillance is not the answer.
More surveillance is not the answer.
More surveillance is not the answer. https://t.co/hD1jETxuHv
My phone, which is satellite-tracked by the Taiwan gov to enforce quarantine, ran out of battery at 7:30 AM. By 8:15, four different units called me. By 8:20, the police were knocking at my door.
— Milo Hsieh (@MiloHsieh) March 22, 2020
Slippery slope https://t.co/m0NjIxEaJJ
— Dave DuFour (@DaveDuFourNBA) March 22, 2020
"ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001..." https://t.co/JBC41EUJXe
— The Tor Project (@torproject) March 23, 2020
.onion: https://t.co/lrmhgAl6C4
Facial recognition, GPS data, geofencing -- the nonstop tracking that sparked the "techlash" could actually help flatten the curve and save lives. Should we treat Big Tech’s coronavirus responses differently from its other, suspect “public good” measures? https://t.co/xMpxIpvZR8
— sid thee fussell (@sidneyfussell) March 23, 2020
is this breach of privacy? of course, but it's a legitimate breach of privacy due to protection of vital interest (i.e. lives) of data subject
— medioker (@mediocrickey) March 23, 2020
nice job Taiwanese govt., hopefully Indonesia is able to provide the equivalent level of protection in yhe future https://t.co/mc2dnx9rpL
Ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, civil liberties experts say.https://t.co/Stkn7vNrWE pic.twitter.com/hhyyGCW8j9
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) March 23, 2020
"In South Korea’s highly wired society, however, internet mobs exploited patient data disclosed by the government site to identify people by name and hound them." https://t.co/iZR4O4Wq1h
— april glaser (@aprilaser) March 23, 2020
This piece is fair and correct. Barring a vaccine miracle, we're getting out of this mess via testing, masks, and contact-tracing, not by shutting down the economy and starving instead of coughing to death.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) March 23, 2020
What will suck is walking back the years of obtuse privacy 'debate'. https://t.co/WVMdcJKXAj
Disclosures of personal data about coronavirus patients around the world have drastically eroded people’s ability to keep their health status private.https://t.co/EfzlhDBmpt
— Natasha Singer (@natashanyt) March 23, 2020
“It [to suddenly have the status of your health blasted out to thousands or potentially millions of people] is a very strange thing to do because, in the alleged interest of public health, you are actually endangering people.” @hypervisible https://t.co/cRgepAD0ZR
— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) March 23, 2020
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."#coronavirus#covid19https://t.co/3Td7vIHavz
— UnwantedWitness (@UnwantedWitness) March 23, 2020
Good roundup of surveillance & privacy issues around COVID-19. Now is the time to be vigilant and make sure we don’t let fear lead us to strike the wrong balance. There are plenty of technological tools to leverage that don’t violate personal privacy. https://t.co/zP2iTfoQZG
— Kevin Bankston (@KevinBankston) March 23, 2020
Our executive director, @FoxCahn, is quoted in today's @nytimes on what the emergency #COVIDー19 measures could mean for New Yorkers' privacy and civil rights. https://t.co/lqsuYtxUuj
— STOP - Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (@STOPSpyingNY) March 23, 2020
"As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own civilians."https://t.co/3isdtrE3ff
— Disconnect (@disconnectme) March 23, 2020
Racheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive snooping later (as Americans learned in the wake of 9/11 terrorism investigations). https://t.co/ojjQNzdYMN
— Freedom House (@freedomhouse) March 23, 2020
The fine-tuned surveillance that allows a country like South Korea to drastically slow coronavirus could leave in place a new network of control ripe for to authoritarian abuse https://t.co/UKHwyLApOp
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) March 23, 2020
Governments around the world are increasingly using location data to manage the coronavirus https://t.co/kTc1DqU1Vd pic.twitter.com/Lt0SKdOv3l
— The Verge (@verge) March 23, 2020
세계적으로 정부들, 코로나바이러스 관리 위해 위치 데이터 사용 증가하고 있어
— Wan Ki Choi (@wkchoi) March 23, 2020
- EU 통신사들은 이탈리아, 독일, 오스트리아 보건당국과 데이터 공유해
- EU의 일반 데이터 보호 규정, 고객 개인 데이터 공유/관리 제한하지만 보건당국 사람들의 규칙 준수 여부 살필 수 있어 https://t.co/1IHzxXkCDN
Several countries have been turning to cellphone location data to help manage their epidemics. This piece from the Verge is a decent overview.https://t.co/lnkodwwbFz
— COVID19 Perspective (@covidperspectiv) March 23, 2020
Great piece by @KellyServick about the ways mobile phone data and apps could help prevent coronavirus infections. Of course the privacy implications could be... huge. https://t.co/fqV4RFCkyt
— Martin Enserink (@martinenserink) March 23, 2020
Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?https://t.co/O5KjvNBs25
— Octavio Medina (@octavio_medina) March 23, 2020
"A contact-tracing app might not have much impact in a city where a high volume of coronavirus cases and extensive community transmission has already shuttered businesses and forced citizens inside..." https://t.co/VjwshrjAU6
— All I don't wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom (@hypervisible) March 23, 2020
Seeing a flurry of coronavirus apps that try to track the location of infected people and their contacts. Can they protect user privacy? My latest for @NewsfromScience https://t.co/HYcgnifAts
— Kelly Servick (@KellyServick) March 22, 2020
"Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?" https://t.co/KLRUtn51sK
— Data Science Renee (@BecomingDataSci) March 23, 2020
Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of #coronavirus. Is #privacy the price? #security #infosecurity #covid19 https://t.co/C6hScNtxws pic.twitter.com/ESQ2nuj8wF
— Paula Piccard #coronavirus 2020 pandemic ?? ?? (@Paula_Piccard) March 23, 2020
Is #privacy the cost of public health surveillance in the age of #covid19? How might the public be involved in evaluating risks vs benefits? #digitalhealth #TechEthics https://t.co/zlnh0Pqnxu
— Camille Nebeker (@cnebeker) March 22, 2020
Smartphone surveillance tracking for #COVID19?https://t.co/TRYUbNyhDc @ScienceMagazine by @KellyServick
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 22, 2020
I don't think location is that helpful vs:
Body temp from @Kinsa to predict Florida https://t.co/OoSTcJp6si or https://t.co/JXpbt5koQl @LancetDigitalH pic.twitter.com/ff0OVnRTUL
"How precrime prosecution could help lower the murder rate."
— David Edward ? (@_David_Edward) March 23, 2020
How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis | WIRED https://t.co/kWH4dTIcPs
In a new @WIRED piece, @sidneyfussell illustrates how enhanced surveillance could help save lives. However, privacy experts worry that data used to fight #COVID19 will be reused for another purpose down the road. @k_finch provides her thoughts & expertise: https://t.co/qbHvBrAjG9 https://t.co/l4Xm0eMbum
— Future of Privacy (@futureofprivacy) March 23, 2020
Smartphones could be a powerful weapon against the novel coronavirus.
— Paula Piccard #coronavirus 2020 pandemic ?? ?? (@Paula_Piccard) March 22, 2020
But tracking people's movements would offend many Americans' sense of privacy.#publichealth #security #privacy #dataprivacy #coronavirus #pandemic #infosecurity https://t.co/atdRyW2lTR pic.twitter.com/HWkdwC50GT
“The problem is, I don't actually believe that that’s where the use of the data ends." Good look at hard problem from @sidneyfussell https://t.co/MYzIbklZWW
— Mark Bergen (@mhbergen) March 23, 2020
“I'm not sure that we should be making longer-term judgments, in an emergency situation, about what the right balance is right now...that often doesn't work out so well." https://t.co/01fH4Pyd1e
— All I don't wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom (@hypervisible) March 23, 2020
true but understates the case— it’s not just our peace of mind at risk, it’s physical safety, protections for fairness & due process, & protections against discrimination & exploitation. injured dignity shouldn’t be minimized but it’s not the primary harm.https://t.co/z1JigugUqW pic.twitter.com/g1L04pujWW
— Lindsey Barrett (@LAM_Barrett) March 23, 2020
Testing times do not call for untested technologies. We wrote an open letter calling on @MattHancock @matthewsgould @NHSX to ensure tech used to fight #COVID19 does not infringe human rights @JeniT @peterkwells @sarahtgold https://t.co/6MNM6XXhR0
— Frederike Kaltheuner (in ? self-isolation) (@F_Kaltheuner) March 23, 2020
Information about how the UK may track coronavirus patients through location data or a dedicated app is coming to light "in a piecemeal and ad hoc way and it is unclear what this data is and who has access to it." https://t.co/chw1PNI8JO
— Shona Ghosh (@shonaghosh) March 23, 2020
Privacy experts urge government to avoid temptation to deploy untested, unethical new technologies to fight coronavirushttps://t.co/iblptc6khx
— Leo Kelion (@LeoKelion) March 23, 2020
현재 11 개국에서 코로나 바이러스 전염병을 추적하기 위해 사람들의 전화를 사용하고 있으며 감시가 크게 증가하고 있음 https://t.co/ZTSSzIvB3a
— editoy (@editoy) March 24, 2020
My forthcoming book deals with biometrics. It’s huge, and invisible too.
— Annie Jacobsen (@AnnieJacobsen) March 24, 2020
“Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.”https://t.co/ZLHvwAyXBI via @NYTimes
This is very very bad https://t.co/pxpumzfA56
— Gemma Paradise (@GemmaParadiseXO) March 24, 2020
States are ratcheting up surveillance to combat the #coronavirus pandemic—could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of monitoring https://t.co/pf4S6JLz1P #COVID19
— Bassam Khawaja (@Bassam_Khawaja) March 23, 2020
https://t.co/49Nn3jOj2s
— Scott Wilson (@metapunker) March 24, 2020
As countries around the world race to contain the #pandemic, many are deploying digital #surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning #security agency #technologies on their own civilians.@natashanyt@nytimes#HIPAA#privacy
The best response to #coronavirus is to work together and use #humanrights as tools to aid and care for each other. But instead, some governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to increase their power and spy on their citizens. #humanrightsundercorona https://t.co/EIVm5ceu1W
— Liberties (@LibertiesEU) March 23, 2020
"As #Coronavirus #Surveillance Escalates, Personal #Privacy Plummets
— Air VPN (@airvpn) March 24, 2020
Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later."https://t.co/tEUuoYm1K1
No,privacy should not be compromised says both @harari_yuval and @Snowden but it happens all over now https://t.co/7fyIL1ExkC
— Pernille Tranberg (@PernilleT) March 23, 2020
Privacy and coronavirus - tracking tools operating all around the world. A debate to have now during the crisis and be aware emergency measures have habit to become new norms. https://t.co/Vpnc6TVgIQ
— Ivana Bartoletti (@IvanaBartoletti) March 24, 2020
한국의 감염병 위기시 제한적 개인정보수집과 공개를 개인권침해라고 비판하던 서구가 지역봉쇄로 이동권 침해에 직면하자 앞다퉈 한국식을 검토중이다.
— VegeBartlebian (@DialecticalMat) March 24, 2020
Verge에 따르면 유럽연합의 각국, 그리고 이젠 개인주의의 첨병 미국마저도 SMS업체와 협력해 한국방식을 논의중이다.https://t.co/tvXr3dh87Y
Governments are using cellphone location data to manage the coronavirus https://t.co/ohgWoWcNod
— Samuel Wong (@SamueL_WonG_) March 24, 2020
Governments around the world are increasingly using location data to manage the coronavirus https://t.co/YduPztKeUs pic.twitter.com/Ma5bUPx9Wa
— The Verge (@verge) March 24, 2020
Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price? https://t.co/QUFDMMJb6B #Internet #Data #privacy #dataprivacy #dataprotection #Online #hacking #cybersecurity #cybercrime #surveillance #monitoring #IoT #IoTSecurity #dataprotection pic.twitter.com/0UFWd2N6Pj
— Cognitive Metropolis (@cogtropolis) March 23, 2020
Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price? https://t.co/BupaprxxZe
— (((jordi vitrià)))? (@bitenmascarado) March 23, 2020
#Coronavirus surveillance may mean the end of personal privacy. This surveillance will be used to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. But once over, will governments stop acting like Big Brother? https://t.co/DMwL9WkpF9
— Anonymous’ 4thEstate ⏳ (@4thAnon) March 23, 2020
How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis | WIRED https://t.co/8mhsffyeWM @IrmaRaste @eViRaHealth #coronavirus #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic
— Evan Kirstel #StayHome #RemoteWork (@evankirstel) March 24, 2020
So important that we get this right.
— IF (@projectsbyif) March 24, 2020
Great to see @BBCNews cover this open letter, signed by many of our colleagues in responsible tech, incl @JeniT, @ODIHQ, @Foxglovelegal, @mikarv, @F_Kaltheuner & others.https://t.co/QAntvRHetM
Europe just saying the quiet part out loud:
— ???????∞ ? (@Ultim8Boon) March 23, 2020
Smart phones are tracking devices. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 https://t.co/0xovG5vGry