the potential dangers of centralised contact tracing apps already becoming scarily, explicitly apparenthttps://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1266758240018276352 …
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it's the ease with which public health language becomes crime-fighting language that is shocking. a panopoly of crime tracking tools already exist, but some seem to think public health tools won't be repurposed (also am connecting to live european debates, despite the us example)
i think it can also expose more than one thing, surveillance priorities being one. we've been building tools that resist repurposing beyond public health: the directions of pushback for purpose limitation are worrying.
A very @Pinboard take
Yes, I do lack opinions of my own.
In the US, intensive surveillance seems only be used to to enforce police & state power. Contract tracing for public safety or public health with proper privacy safeguards? Naah, thats too hard https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/house-was-fire-top-chinese-virologist-how-china-and-us-have-met-pandemic …pic.twitter.com/zrNXZLHzY5
I dare to step in, but, why shall we normalize the surveillance instead of questioning it? Yes, it is used for everything now but maybe it shouldn't be used for anything but health... Then the risks and limitations are a relevant topic. I also wonder about the true effectiveness
Precisely. I think people are confusing issues when saying ‘data is over accumulated already by big tech so why not open all medical data too’. The problem is function creep, also tempting because necessity to monetise data but easily violates basic civil liberties
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