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Two years ago I reshared this article but added my version of infographic showing how these tracking apps could work in near future. It was intended mostly as a joke. Mostly. You can see it below.
Well. Here you go: China uses COVID tracking app to block people from joining protests by changing their COVID status to red. Also it is suspected that COVID tracking system was used to identify those who intended to join protests in the first place and then to track and detain those who managed to do it anyway.
#BraveNewWorld we live in.
Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection | BBC News
Europe's data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own.
Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might pose.
The European Data Protection Supervisor says a single EU app with strong data protection built in is the best solution to the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection
EU data watchdog calls for a single, privacy-centred virus app, instead of dozens of national ones.BBC News
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harry haller
•The reason why I came here to D* was because, more than ten years ago, the UK police would read the posts of activists on Facebook etc. and on the day of a demo - e,g, a royal wedding - they would order the demo leaders to the police station in their home town, keep them waiting all day, then apologise and say there'd been a misunderstanding.....
"Cell phones are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices." src
RMS
Years before that (2001) protesters were stoopped at the border from going to the G8 at Genoa !!!
27th G8 summit - Wikipedia The Italian government suspended freedom of movement entitled by the Schengen treaty for the duration of the G8 summit, in order to monitor the movement of the many protesters arriving from across the European Union.
inter-governmental political summit held in Genoa, Italy, in 2001
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)harry haller
•The problem is the one of using phones and apps, but above all of believing stuff that someone told you.Do they? "Other countries" being our own countries.
The very ones who used to control China.....
If we took a closer look at our OWN governments, things might improve - instead of always pointing away over there and blaming countries about which we actually know nothing.
So we are supposed to believe what we are told by the very people controlling us?
Have we forgotten Echelon? Edward Snowden? Assange? Wikileaks...?
Strewth...
The people of UK are the most surveyed people in the world. That was even before the internet...
harry haller
•All it takes is for your card or phone to be registered as stolen... (that would make a great excuse to stop you in your tracks.
Alexander
•Main problem here aren't apps themselves of course but the idea of normalizing level of surveillance. Sure they can track phones and cards. Nowadays face recogniton with CCTV is also a concern. But these apps were something new as they were pushed as something mandatory and new normal.
We still can choose not to use credit cards and cellular phones but it was/is different with these digital IDs. Not even IDs themselves but the idea of having to present them just to move around or visit public places and possibility of having them revoked at any time.
Same with the idea of mandatory check-in for visits and travel.
tom grzyb
•Your mobile phone is not your friend - it can (and will) be your enemy. We should deal with these devices holding this knowledge forefront.
tom grzyb
•These phones are expensive, and there is a substantial monthly fee - many people cannot afford this...
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