An AP investigation has found that authorities used technologies mobilized for COVID-19 for purposes entirely unrelated to the pandemic — halting travel for activists and ordinary people, harassing marginalized communities and linking people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools. In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies #surveillance #pandemic https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-covid-19-3f3f348d176bc7152a8cb2dbab2e4cc4
Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance
JERUSALEM (AP) — Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic.Garance Burke, Josef Federman, Huizhong Wu, Krutika Pathi (Associated Press)