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Contact tracing

Remember the huge debate, on which we reported a week ago, around the different approaches being proposed for contact-tracing apps? Well, Germany has flipped from the increasingly distrusted PEPP-PT approach to the much less risky DP-3T approach that leading technologists (and, effectively, Apple and Google) are backing. PEPP-PT involves a centralized database that critics said could be used to spy on people beyond what is necessary to fight the pandemic. Also taking the DP-3T route: Spain, Austria, Switzerland and Estonia. Reuters
 
So basically, to fight a nothing burger, which is 99.9% media hype and fear mongering, there going to force everyone to basically be monitored 24/7 by our own phones.

I love my A70 smart phone, but hell no, back to a feature phone for me if they try to push this.

although likely make me wear a Bluetooth device arrrggghhhh!! ( That'll fit on 1 of the cats be fine )
 
Once the cat is out of the bag it'll never return. In American, this will be fit into a "coronavirus reauthorization bill" every year that gives the government carte blanche to spy on every aspect of your life "to protect from coronavirus". Mark my words. The un-American lizards in congress will see it happen. Of course Google and Apple are spearheading this "philanthropic effort". They get to collect more and more specific data and use it to target ads while simultaneously passing it off to whatever unelected government body will manage it. You can be sure it will be used in dragnets for years to come at the decree of whoever we have as president a decade from now.

Those that are willing to give up freedom for security deserve neither.

Turveyd said:
So basically, to fight a nothing burger, which is 99.9% media hype and fear mongering, there going to force everyone to basically be monitored 24/7 by our own phones.

I love my A70 smart phone, but hell no, back to a feature phone for me if they try to push this.

although likely make me wear a Bluetooth device arrrggghhhh!! ( That'll fit on 1 of the cats be fine )
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If this goes through in America I'll be dumping my iPhone and getting a

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Open hardware, kill switches, etc. This will be a great boon to purism's bottom line. You'll have to give up your killer iOS/Android apps but whatever - freedom and privacy are more important than some cookie clicker game or trading app anyway.
 
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ironchef said:
Not a problem. I will sell my iPhone, iPad, iWatch and go back to use a landline.
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They'll make you wear a bluetooth dongle then, as I said I'll just attach it to my cats and let them track me walking around the street all day LOL

Hopefully I can get Antibody test and then be left alone, might have to pay for a few before I get a positive test but hey!!
 
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SURVEILLANCE STATE
Surveillance tech will be big for reopenings. Can it keep privacy concerns in check?
Smile! Whenever society emerges from lockdown, the cameras will be watching.

Businesses worldwide are investing in AI-powered thermal cameras and screening stations to keep tabs on the health of their workers and customers.

The surveillance hardware could become part of a new normal as governments look for ways to reopen their economies --withoutun-flattening the dang curve.

The other challenge: making sure the heat-checking tech doesn’t light people’s privacy rights on fire.

Turns out you can teach an old cam new tricks
Thermal-imaging cameras -- a new spin on the security cams of old -- are promising for a few reasons: Companies can monitor multiple people at once. And unlike a chaperone at a middle-school dance, they can enforce keep-your-distance rules from a safe distance.

The Washington Post and Reuters found that the market for thermal-imaging tech is running hot -- FLIR Systems, a major manufacturer, has seen its stock price soar by 60% in recent weeks.

But the market is also a bit of an unregulated Wild West:

  • The Food and Drug Administration said it “does not intend to object” to the use of the technology for initial body-temp measurements.
  • The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission said businesses can take employees’ temperatures -- and send them home if they’re showing symptoms.
Is a corona diagnosis the new badge of shame?
The president of the National Work rights Institute told the Post that being sent home after showing signs of a fever would be like getting “stamped with the scarlet letter.”

Privacy advocates worry that unproven systems could cause many false positives. And once employers plug in Big Brother, they may not want to go back -- there would be few incentives for companies to put their new toys away after the pandemic fades.

Businesses are turning the cams on anyway
City Farmers Market, in Atlanta,tells customers that it’s using cameras for temperature screening at its entrances, and temp-checking kiosks will be key to casinos’ plans to get the poker tables running again.

from HUSTLE
 
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