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.//
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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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