Countries all around the world are increasing surveillance in order to monitor and contain the spread of coronavirus. In China, CCTV cameras are installed outside apartment buildings to ensure quarantine and drones fly overhead, telling people to wear their masks (see drone footage here). In South Korea, the government is using credit card transactions and mobile phone location to track individuals and map out who the infected have been in contact with. In India, train and airline reservations were monitored to ensure people didn’t travel. Similar surveillance measures have been taken in other countries to include Israel and Singapore.
While some have used the term “war” to describe the fight against coronavirus and it can be understood why such drastic measures are being taken, there is concern of such unmitigated surveillance being continued after the threat of the virus is over. How long will this surveillance data be stored and can it be used to identify specific individuals? Maya Wang, researcher at the non-governmental organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch said, “I don’t think the fact this is an urgent public health crisis is an excuse for governments to not act quickly to find solutions to protect human rights,Otherwise, we fall into this dependency such that later on, we become more intrusive in the use of these technologies which can also produce harm.”
“Please stay home for the good of humanity.”- Me
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I was unaware that China was carefully monitoring their people like this. That is crazy to me, I could never see the United States doing something that extreme. Other countries have less extreme approaches which probably makes the people living there feel safer. I think South Koreas method is one of the best mentioned in this post because it allows people to be notified when they have come into contact with an infected person.
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