It took a few years of tolerable incompetence, caused fears about security, and was meant to be the great surveillance salvation to reassure us all. Instead, Australia’s COVIDSafe App only identified two positive cases of infection during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and failed, in every sense of the term, to work. Launched in April 2020, this […]
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Edward Snowden Gives “ALERT! Your Smartphone Is Always Spying On You.”
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Todd Hayen There has always been a hunger for new discoveries and revelations of the truth, but often, in the past, it took great effort to get past the “agenda”—there has always been one. Think of the Daniel Ellsberg exposure of The Pentagon Papers as well as many pieces coming out of Viet Nam during …
Pékin a eu recours à un bracelet électronique dans les collèges de plus d'un tiers de ses districts. Si la température dépasse 37,2°C, l'élève est envoyé en urgence au centre médical du collège... Une fois l'alerte lancée via Bluetooth vers une application mobile dont disposait l'enseignant, la commission éducative est saisie et un dépistage est organisé. En France, dans le département de la Sarthe, on n'avait jamais vu de bracelets sur des collégiens, mais au prétexte de lutter contre la sédentarité tout (...)
Pékin a eu recours à un bracelet électronique dans les collèges de plus d'un tiers de ses districts. Si la température dépasse 37,2°C, l'élève est envoyé en urgence au centre médical du collège... Une fois l'alerte lancée via Bluetooth vers une application mobile dont disposait l'enseignant, la commission éducative est saisie et un dépistage est organisé. En France, dans le département de la Sarthe, on n'avait jamais vu de bracelets sur des collégiens, mais au prétexte de lutter contre la sédentarité tout (...)
Riley Waggaman Your Still-Very-Stranded-In-Tbilisi Correspondent mused at the end of June that the West’s never-ending barrage of sanctions might disrupt digital cattle-tagging efforts in Russia. This is probably true in “backwards” regions that can’t boast a single Smart or Safe City—how embarrassing. But it is definitely not true in Moscow, which is lorded over by a dancing Boston Dynamics robot …
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is …
Suzie Halewood The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia indictment of Julian Assange is a curious document. By the end of it you can’t help feeling that if anyone is to be indicted, it should be the US Government and the CIA. Assange is accused of conspiracy to receive national information, …
There are no private lives…. This a most important aspect of modern life…. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public. […]
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What if you have something to hide?
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