Amazon is tracking warehouse workers and says it could fire them for violating social distancing rules amazon, Covid, dystopia, ethic, fail, hopelessness, surveillance https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/amazon-says-workers-could-be-fired-for-violating-social-distancing-rules.html
“The long tail of contact tracing” Covid, ethic, human guinea pig, surveillance, technology https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/issues/118
Thousands of Android apps contain undocumented backdoors, study finds android, app, ethic, fail, piracy, privacy, surveillance Thousands of Android apps contain undocumented backdoors, study finds
Tech giants are finding creative ways to use our data to fight the coronavirus 1984, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, privacy, surveillance, technology https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/4/7/21209595/google-mobility-reports-facebook-disease-prevention-maps-tech-privacy-backlash?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=theverge.socialflow
Iran Launched an App That Claimed to Diagnose Coronavirus. Instead, It Collected Location Data on Millions of People. 1984, dystopia, ethic, fakenews, privacy, surveillance, technology https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgkmz/iran-launched-an-app-that-claimed-to-diagnose-coronavirus-instead-it-collected-location-data-on-millions-of-people
Taiwan’s new ‘electronic fence’ for quarantines leads wave of virus monitoring Covid, data, surveillance, technology https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-surveillanc/taiwans-new-electronic-fence-for-quarantines-leads-wave-of-virus-monitoring-idUSKBN2170SK
Poland made an app that forces coronavirus patients to take regular selfies to prove they’re indoors or face a police visit 1984, Covid, medical, surveillance, technology https://www.businessinsider.com/poland-app-coronavirus-patients-mandaotory-selfie-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
Palantir in Talks With Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool 1984, hopelessness, surveillance, technology https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/palantir-in-talks-with-germany-france-for-virus-fighting-tool
Is China’s social credit system as Orwellian as it sounds? 1984, dystopia, ethic, privacy, surveillance https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/26/137255/chinas-social-credit-system-isnt-as-orwellian-as-it-sounds/#Echobox=1585589038
It’s time to track people’s smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin 1984, Covid, dystopia, hopelessness, privacy, surveillance https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/23/track_phones_coronavirus_who/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook