A year-long investigation by AP journalists reveals how the US, India, Australia, China and Israel used Covid-19 apps and health data to surveil people
found that governments around the world have been using software meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19 to track and trace people for penal purposes.
During the pandemic that devastated the world, killing 6.67 million people and wreaking havoc on the global economy, people were willing to supply private personal information about themselves to official apps that promised to alert them to the presence of the virus in their vicinity and keep them safe.
“Any intervention that increases state power to monitor individuals has a long tail and is a ratcheting system,” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Toronto-based internet watchdog Citizen Lab toldIn June, a group of bank customers wanted to travel to Henan’s provincial capital Zhengzhou to demonstrate about not being able to access their online bank accounts, after finding out a police investigation had blocked 40 billion yuan in funds.
The report also mentions instances of Beijing’s encouragement of local health officials linking to national databases. “Surveillance today is being posed as a technological panacea to large social problems in India, which has brought us very close to China,” Apar Gupta, executive director of the New Delhi-based Internet Freedom Foundation, said. “There is no law. There are no safeguards. And this is a general purpose deployment of mass surveillance.
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