Mass Surveillance Threatens Personal Privacy Amid Coronavirus
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As governments look to contain the spread of COVID-19, they’re turning to every tool at their disposal, including large surveillance networks, personal cell phone tracking, and AI and facial recognition.
In Russia, facial recognition technology has been deployed to ensure that quarantined individuals do not leave their homes or hotels.
It’s not just external cameras being used to track individuals. It’s also the very device many people take with them everywhere, our smartphones. Telecom companies in China are handing over records of customers’ movements to the government as well as letting users know if they have been in an impacted area recently, while places such as Singapore have worked to trace infected individuals’ movements through data from ride-sharing apps
Qns:
As governments look to contain the spread of COVID-19, they’re turning to every tool at their disposal, including large surveillance networks, personal cell phone tracking, and AI and facial recognition.
In Russia, facial recognition technology has been deployed to ensure that quarantined individuals do not leave their homes or hotels.
It’s not just external cameras being used to track individuals. It’s also the very device many people take with them everywhere, our smartphones. Telecom companies in China are handing over records of customers’ movements to the government as well as letting users know if they have been in an impacted area recently, while places such as Singapore have worked to trace infected individuals’ movements through data from ride-sharing apps
Qns:
1. To what extent can the regulation of scientific or technological
developments be justified? (Cam. 2014)
2. To what extent has technology had an impact on both privacy and
security in your country? (Cam. 2009)
posted by Dark Shadow | 12:05 AM
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