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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
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Legal backlash and user hacks compromise India’s Covid-19 app - 28 octobre 2020
A high court has ruled that individuals do not have to download the contact tracing platform to access public services, while some who have just turn it off
When India’s government launched its Covid-19 app in April, the stated aim was to inform people about the virus, help them to report symptoms and issue (...)
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En Inde, la plus grande application de traçage du monde soulève des craintes - 10 juin 2020
Destinée à lutter contre l’épidémie, l’application Aarogya Setu (téléchargée par un Indien sur dix) est attaquée en raison de sa collecte de données et de sa gestion opaque. Le gouvernement a fait des concessions, mais des inquiétudes persistent.
Bangalore (Inde), correspondance.– Plus fort que Pokémon Go : avec 50 millions (...)
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Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet - 3 juin 2020
A video posted on Twitter sparked fears that Black Lives Matter protesters could be tracked down using Covid-19 contact-tracing technology. It’s a false alarm on this occasion, but without clear protections in place, the question is ‘when’ not ‘if’ our data is misused.
Like many of the people who watched Minnesota (...)
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Een snelle uitweg uit de lockdown ? Niet met een app - 1er juin 2020
Het ene land na het andere land beloofde dit voorjaar een app om coronabesmettingen op te sporen. Maar in de praktijk schiet de technologie nog tekort. Daarom, terug van weggeweest : het vertrouwde, handmatige contactonderzoek.
Toen Sam Aldridge voor het eerst hoorde over een app die nagaat met wie je allemaal in (...)
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We were told technology would end Covid-19 lockdowns, but the truth is there’s no app for that - 1er juin 2020
In many countries, contact-tracing apps were presented as a precondition to end lockdowns. But our Track(ed) Together investigation reveals that many countries are struggling with the technology, turning instead to less high-tech solutions.
Sam Aldridge was sceptical when she first heard about Australia’s (...)
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Coronavirus : controverse sur le partage des données personnelles dans les aéroports indiens - 26 mai 2020
Le gouvernement de Narendra Modi souhaitait rendre obligatoire une application de traçage du Covid-19, avant d’y renoncer à la reprise des vols domestiques, lundi 25 mai.
Après exactement deux mois de paralysie, les avions ont recommencé à voler lundi 25 mai en Inde, dans une grande confusion. Les principales (...)
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India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any other democracy - 21 mai 2020
Millions of Indians have no choice but to download the country’s tracking technology if they want to keep their jobs or avoid reprisals.
The world has never seen anything quite like Aarogya Setu. Two months ago, India’s app for coronavirus contact tracing didn’t exist ; now it has nearly 100 million users. Prime (...)
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India was already a surveillance state. Its Covid-19 app goes even further - 16 mai 2020
Concerns about the government’s new contact-tracing software stretch back more than a decade, to its controversial biometric data scheme
Critics warn that India’s new national contact tracing app, downloaded by over 100 million people, is just the latest move in the country’s drive to establish an increasingly (...)
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India orders mandatory use of COVID-19 contact tracing app for all workers - 4 mai 2020
The heads of organisations will be responsible for ensuring that employees install the app.
The Indian government announced on Friday that all workers, both in the public and private sectors, are required to install the nation’s COVID-19 contact tracing app as it begins to ease some of its lockdown measures for (...)
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India orders coronavirus tracing app for all workers - Reuters - 3 mai 2020
India orders coronavirus tracing app for all workers
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has ordered all public and private sector employees use a government-backed contact tracing app and maintain social distancing in offices as it begins easing some of its lockdown measures in districts less affected by the (...)
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A Scramble for Virus Apps That Do No Harm - The New York Times - 2 mai 2020
Faced with a growing coronavirus threat, the governor of North Dakota last month posed a question to a friend from his private-sector days. The friend, a software engineer, had once created a location-tracking app for football fans at North Dakota State University who liked to meet up when traveling to big games. (...)
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Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds a problem for Apple-Google coronavirus app - The Washington Post - 2 mai 2020
Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert system under development by Google and Apple, suggesting that it will be difficult to persuade enough people to use the app to make it effective against the coronavirus pandemic, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll (...)
