Here's my oped urging safeguards and restrictions be put in place now as these technologies are being rolled out without due consideration for the long-term protection of human rights and civil liberties: Why we need restrictions on coronavirus surveillance <https://news.trust.org/item/20200328130228-rzdk2/> -- *Dr. Courtney C. Radsch * [email protected] | @courtneyr www.mediatedspeech.com
Author of *Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change <https://smile.amazon.com/Cyberactivism-Citizen-Journalism-Egypt-Information/dp/1137497890/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g2243582042?_encoding=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0&ie=UTF8>* On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:38 PM Robert Mathews (OSIA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic* > *The Wall Street Journal* (via MSN, for those that do not have a WSJ > subscription) > Byron Tau > 28 March 2020 > 5 hrs ago > > https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/government-tracking-how-people-move-around-in-coronavirus-pandemic/ar-BB11PDb4?ocid=se2 > > WASHINGTON—Government officials across the U.S. are using location data > from millions of cellphones in a bid to better understand the movements of > Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and how they may be affecting the > spread of the disease. > > The federal government, through the Centers for Disease Control and > Prevention, and state and local governments have started to receive > analyses about the presence and movement of people in certain areas of > geographic interest drawn from cellphone data, people familiar with the > matter said. The data comes from the mobile advertising industry rather > than cellphone carriers. > > [ .... ] > -- > > > *Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil. Principal Technologist & **Distinguished > Senior Research Scholar* > *Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)* > *University of Hawai'i* > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected].
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